Overview
- Coordinated searches covered Kulgam, Pulwama, Shopian, Baramulla and Ganderbal, with more than 200 locations targeted in Kulgam alone.
- Officials said over 400 cordon-and-search operations were conducted across recent days leading into Wednesday’s coordinated raids.
- Around 500 individuals were interrogated, with many bound down under preventive laws and shifted to District Jail Mattan in Anantnag.
- Police reported seizing documents, printed material and digital devices for detailed scrutiny to trace ideological, financial and logistical links.
- Media accounts connected the heightened activity to the recent Red Fort blast that raised alert levels, and police cast the campaign as sustained counterterrorism.