NIA cracks down on terrorists in J&K, attaches properties of 3 linked to Pak-based terror groups
In two different cases of terror activities, the NIA attached the immovable properties of three accused linked with proscribed terrorist organizations.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has intensified its crackdown on terror outfits and their affiliates in Jammu and Kashmir by attaching the properties of three accused linked with banned Pakistan-based terrorist organizations. The NIA conducted raids on properties of terror suspects and accused across locations to take swift action in such cases.
NIA (National Investigation Agency) attaches properties of three accused, involved in terror cases at Shopian, Lethpora and Kupwara, on Wednesday. (ANI)
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In two different cases of terror activities, the NIA attached the immovable properties of three accused linked with proscribed terrorist organizations like Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) on Wednesday. The first case involved the attachment of the immovable properties of Doulat Ali Mugal and Ishaq Pala in Herman Shopian tehsil in Kashmir under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Ishaq Pala, a terrorist linked to Hizbul Mujahideen/Al-Badr, is currently lodged in Central Jail Agra. Doulat Ali Mugal was an overground worker of proscribed HM and is currently out on bail.
The duo conspired to join terror ranks and wage a war against India. Accused Doulat Ali Mugal provided logistic support to the terrorists while crossing the Line of Control. The properties attached include a double-storey house of Doulat Ali Mugal in village Manigah Kupwara and immovable property in the form of two rooms under the ownership of accused Ishaq Pala at village Allora in Shopian.
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The second case involved the attachment of the immovable property of Fayaz Ahmad Magray, an Overground Worker (OGW) of the proscribed terrorist outfit JeM, currently lodged in District Jail Jhajjar, Haryana. The property consisted of six shops in Lethpora, Pulwama.
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The second case involved the attachment of the immovable property of Fayaz Ahmad Magray, an Overground Worker (OGW) of the proscribed terrorist outfit JeM, currently lodged in District Jail Jhajjar, Haryana. The property consisted of six shops in Lethpora, Pulwama.
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Fayaz Ahmad Magray was chargesheeted on August 1, 2018, for conspiring with local as well as Pakistan-based terrorists of JeM to execute a fidayeen attack on CRPF Group Centre Lethpora, Pulwama. He carried out a recce of the CRPF centre and provided logistic support to JeM terrorists before and after the attack.
The NIA launched investigations in February 2018 into the criminal conspiracy to commit acts of terror and violence in Kashmir, leading to the busting of a module of Overground Workers of JeM. Nissar Ahmad Tantray, Syed Hilal Andrabi, and Irshad Ahmad Reshi were arrested in the case and subsequently charged by the NIA.
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.
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