The National Investigation Agency (NIA) was on Wednesday morning searching 11 locations in Srinagar and five in Delhi as a part of a probe into charges of funds from Pakistan being used to stoke unrest in the Kashmir Valley.
Those raided include alleged Hawala dealers in Delhi and businessmen involved in cross-border trade in Jammu and Kashmir.
“We have got fresh leads that suggest that the cross-Line of Control trade between Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir has become a major source of funding of separatist and violent activities in the Valley,” NIA chief Sharad Kumar said.
The raids were conducted mainly in connection with the NIA’s investigation into the LoC trade, he said.
The country’s anti-terror investigation agency had on July 24 arrested seven separatists in an investigation to ascertain if funds from Pakistan were used to fuel last year’s unrest in the Valley that left 100 people, most of them civilians, dead.
Source:ht