On Sunday, the National Probe Agency (NIA) conducted raids across Kashmir and summoned at least 40 teachers in connection with recent target killings here, which the agency has formally taken over the investigation from local police.
According to a report by the news agency IANS, top officials of the IB, including Tapan Deka, the chief of the agency’s counter-terrorism wing, are camping in Srinagar on the orders of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
“The home minister has made it plain to Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha that many heads will roll in the UT unless the terrorists implicated in these deaths are soon brought to justice,” IANS said, citing top unidentified sources.
Over 500 persons have been held by the J&K Police in connection with FIRs filed in various police stations in connection with recent killings that have reportedly prompted a new influx of Pandit community members from the Kashmir Valley.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken over the investigation into the murders of administrator Supinder Kour and teacher Deepak Chand, who were shot dead inside their school in Srinagar’s Eidgah neighbourhood.
The NIA also summoned forty teachers to its Srinagar office on Church Lane on Sunday. Teachers come from a variety of Srinagar schools.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had previously conducted raids at 16 places across Kashmir Valley.
According to sources, the raids were place in Srinagar, Anantnag, Kulgam, and Baramulla.
A number of persons have been arrested. Stone pelters and anti-India elements were among those arrested, according to police.
In the last 2-3 days, 70 youths have been held in Srinagar, with a total of 570 persons seized across Kashmir, according to the report.
According to one account, NIA agents and CRPF officers stormed the home of Nayeem Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Aaripora Zewan who works as a driver for Hassan Road Construction Company. The house of Mushtaq Ahmad Dar, a resident of Baghi Nand Singh Chattabal who runs a chicken farm, was also searched by NIA sleuths, who seized nearly five mobile phones and other items, according to them.
The residence of Suhail Ahmad Bhat, son of Late Ghulam Mohammad Bhat, a resident of Solina Payeen in Shergari Police jurisdiction here, and the house of Tahir Ahmad Najar, son of Mohammad Sultan Najar, a resident of Bahauddind Sahab in Nowhata, were both raided by NIA sleuths, according to them.
A NIA team of five personnel led by SP Naveen Kumar and Dysp R K Pandey stormed a property in Mir Mohalla in Achabal, according to sources in South Kashmir.
According to them, a raid was carried out in north Kashmir at Kreeri in Baramulla, and similar operations were carried out in Jammu as well.
Charges Framed Against Andrabi, Nahida
Meanwhile, Asiya Andrabi and two of her close associates, Nahida Nasreen and Sufi Fehmida, have been charged by a special designated NIA court.
According to the report, under a FIR filed in Anantnag, special designated judge Javed Alam charged nine people, including Andrabi, Nasreen, and Fehmida, with being involved with Dukhtaran-e-Millat.
Aggravated assault, conspiracy against the government, stoning and damaging public property, and encouraging others, particularly youth and college students, were among the charges levelled against them.
Andrabi and her two associates are currently incarcerated in Tihar Jail, where the allegations were framed via videoconference.
It should be mentioned that the accused in this case was indicted by the NIA special court after a three-year interval. Andrabi and eight others are accused with disrupting law and order in the chargesheet. According to the chargesheet, Andrabi and the other defendants organised and led a mob armed with stones.
(With inputs from Kashmir Observer.)
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