Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday conducted extensive searches in three districts of Jammu & Kashmir in a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) linked case of killing of non-locals.
The case relates to the killing of two civilians belonging to Chamyari in Amritsar Punjab by terrorists, who opened fire at them on the evening of February 7, 2024, at Shalla Kadal in the Shaheed Ganj area of Srinagar.
While Amritpal Singh died on the spot, the other victim, Rohit Masi, was critically injured and succumbed to his injuries at a Srinagar hospital the next day.
A case was initially registered in Police Station Shaheed Gunj, Srinagar, and the investigation was later taken over by the NIA. The NIA had earlier chargesheeted four accused in the case. A spokesperson of NIA said the searches were conducted on Tuesday at six locations in the districts of Srinagar, Budgam, and Sopore in the case.
NIA teams seized several incriminating materials from the residential premises belonging to sympathisers, cadres, and overground workers (OGWs) of the proscribed terror outfit, LeT, and its offshoot ‘The Resistance Front’ (‘TRF’), the NIA said, adding the suspects were involved in harbouring, sheltering, and providing logistical assistance to terrorists.
NIA investigations in the case so far have revealed that masterminds of LeT and TRF were in touch with youth in the Kashmir Valley to orchestrate attacks on non-locals as part of a conspiracy to wage war against the Government of India.
The criminal conspiracy was reportedly planned both physically and through cyberspace, using encrypted social media applications. NIA is examining the materials seized during the searches and is continuing with its probe in the case, the spokesperson said.
In November last year, NIA had attached the property of key accused Adil Manzoor Langoo of Zaldagar Srinagar- allegedly involved in the killing of the two non local workers.
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