The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted raids at two locations in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district, including the Darul Uloom Siraj-ul-Uloom, which was declared illegal by the administration last month.
NIA sleuths carried out searches at the school in the Imam Sahib area of Shopian in the early hours on Monday, officials said. The education institute imparts both religious and formal education to hundreds of students.
Officials said another NIA team also searched the residence of the former chief of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami, Shahzada Aurangzeb, at Molu Chitragam in the district.
The institution had come under the scanner after investigators alleged serious financial mismanagement and claimed it operated without official registration.
Besides, authorities alleged the institution had links to the banned Jamaat-e-Islami, which they said was involved in anti-national activities.
In a parallel operation, another NIA team searched the residence of former chief of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami, Shahzada Aurangzeb, in the Molu Chitragam area of Shopian.
The central agency also conducted searches at Jamiat-ul-Banaat, a religious school for girls, in Srinagar’s Lal Bazar area.
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