Overview

• The Jammu and Kashmir Police counter-intelligence unit and Delhi Police executed search warrants on August 6 at Shalimar Textiles in Lajpat Nagar under UAPA and the NIA Act
• Investigators arrested Budgam resident Mohammad Ayoub Bhat and his associate Mohammad Rafiq Shah for allegedly funneling about Rs 4 crore to Lashkar-e-Taiba operations in Kashmir
• Authorities seized mobile phones, laptops and encrypted files showing communications with Pakistan-based handlers and records of underground hawala transfers
• Initial interrogations indicate a wider funding pipeline involving handlers across the Line of Control, Gulf-based sympathisers and couriers posing as pilgrims and businessmen
• Officials say further nationwide crackdowns are likely as investigators follow the trail of the uncovered terror financing network