The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday conducted multiple searches in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the conspiracy of banned terror group ISIS in the Valley.

In an official statement, the NIA confirmed that its officials conducted simultaneous searches in Srinagar and Anantnag at seven locations in connection with the conspiracy of ISIS to “radicalise and recruit” impressionable youth in India to “wage violent jihad” against the Indian State.

The investigative agency further stated that in order to execute its nefarious plan, an organised campaign has been launched over cyberspace which is supplemented by on-ground terror financing activities.

“Searches in the case led to recovery and seizure of a large number of incriminating documents and digital devices,” NIA added

An India-centric online propaganda magazine ‘the Voice of Hind’ ( VOH) is published on monthly basis to incite and radicalise youths by projecting a skewed narrative of imagined injustices in India to arouse a feeling of alienation and communal hatred, the NIA said.

ISIS terrorists operating from various conflict zones along with ISIS cadres in India, by assuming pseudo online identities, have created a network wherein ISIS-related propaganda material is disseminated for radicalising and recruiting members into its fold.

Searches in the case on Sunday led to the recovery and seizure of a large number of incriminating documents and digital devices such as mobile phones, tablets, laptops and hard disks, and T-shirts having the ISIS logo.