Counter-Intelligence Kashmir conducts searches across Kashmir in terror case

SRINAGAR: Counter-Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police carried out pre-dawn searches at multiple locations across the Kashmir Division on Tuesday in connection with a terror-related case.

#WATCH | J&K | Counter‑Intelligence Kashmir unit of the Jammu and Kashmir Police conducted pre‑dawn searches at multiple locations in the Kashmir Division in a terror‑related case today.

Details awaited.

(Source: Counter‑Intelligence Kashmir unit ) pic.twitter.com/S8mbE4182a

— ANI (@ANI) December 16, 2025

Earlier, an encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in the Sohan area of Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir. This comes after the Indian Army and J-K Police established contact with the terrorist in an intelligence-based operation.

The White Knight Corps in a post on X said, “In an intelligence-based operation, SOG J-K Police and alert troops of the Indian Army have established contact with terrorists in the general area of Sohan, Udhampur District. Fire exchanged with terrorists”.The operation is still under way.

#WhiteKnightCorps | Contact with Terrorists | #OpKiya

In an intelligence based operation, SOG @JmuKmrPolice and alert troops of @IndianArmy have established contact with terrorists in general area of Sohan, Udhampur District. Fire exchanged with terrorists. Operation is in…

— White Knight Corps (@Whiteknight_IA) December 15, 2025

Meanwhile, on Monday, Pakistani handler terrorist Sajid Jatt was named with six others, including banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its proxy The Resistance Front (TRF) terrorist organisations, in the National Investigation Agency’s Pahalgam terror attack chargesheet filed

The LeT and the TRF’s names are mentioned as legal entities in planning, facilitating, and executing the attack that involved religion-based targeted killings of 26 people on April 22. The 1,597-page chargesheet details Pakistan’s conspiracy, the roles of the accused, and supporting evidence in the case.

Filed before the NIA Special Court, Jammu, NIA’s chargesheet further names the three Pakistani terrorists killed by Indian security forces during the action in Operation Mahadev at Dachigam, Srinagar, in July 2025, weeks after the deadly terror attack.

The three individuals have been identified as Faisal Jatt, alias Suleman Shah; Habeeb Tahir, alias Jibran; and Hamza Afghani. The LeT and the TRF, as well as the four abovementioned terrorists, the NIA said, have been charged under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, the Arms Act, 1959, and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.

In its chargesheet, NIA has also invoked the penal section against the accused for waging war against India. The NIA, through a meticulous scientific probe spanning the past almost eight months, said it has traced the conspiracy in the case (RC-02/2025/NIA/JMU) to Pakistan, which has been unabatedly sponsoring terrorism against India.

The two accused persons, Parvaiz Ahmad and Bashir Ahmad Jothar, who the NIA arrested on June 22 for harbouring terrorists, have also been chargesheeted. During interrogation, the two men had disclosed the identities of the three armed terrorists involved in the attack. They had also confirmed that they were Pakistani nationals affiliated to the proscribed LeT terror outfit.In the Pahalgam attack, which involved targeted killings by the Pak-sponsored terrorists, 25 tourists and one local civilian were shot dead by the terrorists. (ANI)