Baramulla, Jul 28: In fresh pre-dawn raids, National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday conducted searches at the residences of four cross-LoC traders in north Kashmir’s Baramulla town in connection with a militancy funding case and smuggling of drugs from across the border.
Sources told ‘Kashmir Images’ that the team of NIA accompanied by police and paramilitary CRPF conducted searches at the residences of Tariq Ahmed Mir, son of Gulam Din Mir of Microwave Kanlibagh Baramulla; Tanvir Ahmad Mir alias Kaka Mir, son of Abdul Rasheed Mir of Chinar Bagh Kanlibagh Baramulla; Bilal Ahmad Bhat, son of Abdul Khaliq Bhat of Tregam Sumbal Sonawari, at present Kanispora Baramulla, and Asif Akbar Lone, son of Mohamed Akbar Lone of Ifaat Colony Kanlibagh Baramulla.
Earlier also NIA had carried out raids in parts of Kashmir in connection with the funding case registered by the probe agency. So far many Hurriyat leaders besides some businessmen have been arrested by the NIA and most of them are lodged in Tihar Jail in New Delhi.
