NIA searches 7 places in Kashmir over circulation of ISIS propaganda

THE NATIONAL Investigation Agency (NIA) Sunday searched seven places in Kashmir in reference to a case regarding makes an attempt by terror group ISIS to recruit youth in India. It detained some folks for questioning, the police stated.
The company claimed ISIS is posting materials on-line to “radicalize impressionable youth by projecting a skewed narrative of imagined injustices in India”.
The company registered a case on this matter on June 29 and, accompanied by the Jammu and Kashmir Police, carried out searches on Sunday.
Police officers stated that the central company sleuths raided a couple of places at Achabal in Anantnag and detained at the least 5 youths for questioning. The officers additionally searched a spiritual seminary in Srinagar apart from a couple of places in Awantipora and Baramulla.
“In order to execute its nefarious plan, an organised campaign has been launched over the cyber space, which is supplemented by on-ground terror financing activities,” the NIA stated in a press release on Sunday.
According to the NIA, ISIS terrorists working from varied battle zones together with its cadres in India have created a community whereby ISIS associated propaganda materials is disseminated for radicalising and recruiting members to the fear organisation’s fold. All of this, the NIA has claimed, is finished utilizing pseudo identities.

“In this connection, an India-centric online propaganda magazine, ‘Voice of Hind’ (VOH), is published on monthly basis with an aim to incite and radicalize impressionable youth by projecting a skewed narrative of imagined injustices in India to arouse a feeling of alienation and communal hatred,” the company assertion stated.

The NIA claimed its searches led to restoration and seizure of numerous incriminating paperwork and digital units reminiscent of cell phones, tablets, laptop computer, onerous disks and t-shirts with ISIS printed on them.