The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday (May 25, 2026) conducted searches at three locations in J&K in a terror funding case linked to the banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI). 

The searches were carried out at three locations in the Srinagar and Shopian districts of Kashmir, an NIA spokesperson said. “The searches led to the recovery of several incriminating financial documents and electronic gadgets, suspected to be related to the activities of the JeI, and its various trusts and associations in J&K,” the spokesperson added. 

The NIA said it had been probing the separatist and secessionist activities of the banned JeI. During the investigations, the NIA said, it had emerged that the JeI had been actively involved in collecting terror funds, and fuelling terrorism in the Kashmir Valley and other parts of India.

“It was engaged in collecting funds domestically and internationally in the name of donations for charity and welfare activities such as health and education. It was diverting such funds towards violent and secessionist activities, and also channelling them to proscribed terrorist organisations such as the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen and others, through well-organised networks of cadres,” the spokesperson said.

The JeI terror conspiracy further involved radicalisation and recruitment of impressionable Kashmiri youth as new members (’Rukuns’) for carrying out secessionist activities, according to the NIA. 

“The NIA is continuing with its investigation in the case in a bid to end the outfit’s secessionist activities, and dismantle the terror network operating in J&K,” the spokesperson said.