carried out fresh raids across southern Kashmir, targeting what investigators describe as a “white-collar terror” module linked to the Red Fort car blast in New Delhi.
According to officials, searches are underway at eight locations spread across Shopian, Kulgam and Qazigund, zeroing in on individuals believed to have provided logistical, financial and technical support to the module.
This is the same high-profile network the NIA busted in early November, a case that stunned security agencies because it didn’t involve typical militant recruits.
Instead, the module was allegedly operated by a radicalised set of educated professionals—engineers, tech workers, mid-level corporate employees—who used their skills, anonymity, and access to resources to quietly build an operational chain for terror activities.
Officials say the group was affiliated with Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and played a key role in the conspiracy behind the car blast near Delhi’s Red Fort, a strike investigators have repeatedly called a “sophisticated, urban-style terror attempt.”
During the earlier multi-state raids in Srinagar, Anantnag, Ganderbal, Shopian and Faridabad, agencies had seized nearly 3,000 kg of explosive materials, primarily ammonium nitrate, along with electronic devices, documents and digital footprints indicating a wider network.
Today’s raids, sources say, aim to track financial trails, decode encrypted communication, and identify additional “clean-profile operatives” who may have slipped under the radar.
Security has been heightened in the valley, and more arrests are expected as the NIA tightens its net around what it terms India’s first major white-collar terror syndicate—a network that merged professional expertise with extremist ideology to execute high-impact urban terror plots.
More details awaited.
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