Srinagar, May 30 (UNI) The Counter-Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) team on Friday conducted searches at multiple locations across Kashmir after obtaining a search warrant from the Court of Special Judge, Designated under NIA Act, Srinagar in a terror-linked case.

An official communique said that during the investigation of the instant case, suspicious technical signatures were traced at different locations of Districts Budgam, Pulwama, Kupwara, Shopian, and Srinagar.



The suspects were found using suspected encrypted messaging applications, read the handout.

During further analysis, it read that various individual suspects were found using a ‘specific encrypted messaging application’ which is widely used by terrorists and handlers from across for coordinating and executing a variety of terrorist related activities, including recruitment into terrorist ranks.



"These individuals or users are suspected to be in touch with suspicious entities across the border. As such, maintaining the element of surprise, the searches were meticulously planned and conducted," the release said.

It also said that during raids, incriminating material in the form of SIM cards, mobile phones, tablets, and other digital devices bearing on the investigation of the case have been recovered and seized in the instant case.



"Analysis of the data would follow, and leads that would emerge would become the basis for further investigation," it read.

It is pertinent to mention here that the operation is aimed at to uncover crucial evidence, curb illicit activities, prevent the misuse of communication devices, such as mobile phones, and dismantling the terror ecosystem in the UT by identifying terrorist associates and Over Ground Workers (OGWs) supporting and abetting terrorism and also ensuring legal action against them as envisaged by the law of the land.

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