NIA detains 15 after raids in Kashmir

The National Investigation Agency conducted raids at seven places in Kashmir on Sunday and detained about 15 persons in connection with an ISIS module allegedly involved in radicalisation and recruitment of youth.

The agency said in a statement that it carried out the searches in the ISIS ‘Voice of Hind’ case registered in June under sections of 124A, 153A and 153B of the Indian Penal Code and sections 17, 18, 18B, 38, 39 and 40 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. The raids were conducted on a seminary in Srinagar and several business establishments in Srinagar and Anantnag.

“The case was registered in connection with the conspiracy of the proscribed terrorist organization ISIS to radicalize and recruit impressionable youths in India to wage violent jihad against the Indian state,” read the NIA statement.


NIA officials said that in order to execute its nefarious plan the ISIS module was launched over the cyberspace and was supplemented by terror financing activities on the ground. “ISIS terrorists operating from various conflict zones along with ISIS cadres in India, by assuming pseudo-online identities, have created a network wherein ISIS related propaganda material is disseminated for radicalizing and recruiting members to the fold of ISIS,” said the NIA.