Overview
- Searches span Kulgam, Pulwama, Shopian, Baramulla and Ganderbal, with more than 200 locations checked in Kulgam alone.
- Over the past four days in Kulgam, police carried out 400+ cordon-and-search operations and questioned about 500 people, many bound down or moved to District Jail Mattan under preventive laws.
- Teams seized documents, printed material and digital devices that police describe as incriminating, which are being examined forensically.
- Officials say the action follows intelligence that JeI-linked elements seek to revive activity under new fronts, focusing on OGWs and suspects tied to JKNOP.
- The stepped-up operations follow a nationwide security alert after a deadly Red Fort car blast and arrests tied to an alleged inter‑state module, though authorities have not linked those probes to the Valley raids.