J&K police search homes of Jamaat members, masjids and madrassas

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Police with CRPF unit   transportation  retired  a hunt  astatine  the residence of a idiosyncratic   linked to banned Jamaat-e-Islami, successful  Pulwama, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. J&K Police carried retired  raids astatine  aggregate  locations crossed  the Kashmir Valley arsenic  portion  of its crackdown connected  the banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), officials said.

Police with CRPF unit transportation retired a hunt astatine the residence of a idiosyncratic linked to banned Jamaat-e-Islami, successful Pulwama, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. J&K Police carried retired raids astatine aggregate locations crossed the Kashmir Valley arsenic portion of its crackdown connected the banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), officials said. | Photo Credit: PTI

The J&K Police searched premises of members of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami successful 7 districts of the Kashmir Valley and the superior metropolis Srinagar connected Thursday (November 27, 2025). Police officials said searches were carried retired successful Shopian, Anantnag, Awantipora, Shopian, Kulgam, Handwara, Budgam and Pulwama .

In Srinagar, constabulary searched madrassas and masjids crossed each zones. Officials said the searches signifier portion of a continued effort to dismantle the panic enactment ecosystem successful Srinagar and to forestall immoderate acts aimed astatine disturbing bid and nationalist order. Search teams were accompanied by enforcement magistrates and autarkic witnesses

Police stressed that the operations volition proceed wherever credible inputs bespeak the beingness of individuals oregon materials linked to panic oregon radicalised activities.

“Acting connected credible accusation regarding suspected unlawful activities and imaginable links with the JeI, the Handwara constabulary conducted a raid astatine Jamia Islamia Institute, Waripora, Handwara. Electronic devices recovered during the cognition person been seized and are being examined,” the constabulary said.

The constabulary said aggregate locations crossed 7 districts were searched, targeting individuals and premises linked to the banned JeI organisation, proscribed nether the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).

Preventive action

“These large-scale operations signifier portion of continuing preventive measures aimed astatine identifying and neutralising networks attempting to covertly revive the activities of proscribed organisations. All individuals with immoderate past oregon contiguous affiliation to the banned radical were brought nether the ambit of the searches,” the constabulary said.

The constabulary said physics gadgets, along with assorted documents and different incriminating materials suspected to person relevance to the organisation’s clandestine activities, were seized. “These items person been seized for elaborate forensic and method examination,” the constabulary said.

In Awantipora, the constabulary said searches were conducted astatine the homes and premises of JeI members “to dismantle the panic ecosystem and its enactment structures.”

“During the operation, incriminating worldly and integer devices were recovered, and respective JeI members were questioned and placed nether restrictive orders,” the constabulary said.

Police officials said, the unit is “dedicated to maintaining peace, stability, and nationalist order.”

Published - November 27, 2025 09:57 p.m. IST

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