The houses of all the three (the vendor, the subscriber and the OGW) were searched to look for additional evidence.
In yet another case, a PoS vendor of Mir Mohalla Monghall of Anantnag created a SIM card for a subscriber who handed it over to an OGW of Hizbul Mujahideen outfit. One PoS vendor in Chawalgam in Kulgam under the name M/S Airtel Micro World created a SIM card against a non-existent person namely Gowhar Ahmad Hajam and gave the SIM card to a person in Qaimoh in Kulgam who turned out to be an OGW of militant outfit Ansar Gazwatul Hind. In three cases preliminary evidence strongly indicated that the SIM cards were procured to help the militants in maintaining their communication with their handlers across the border and other modules inside J&K, the agency said. J&K State Investigation Agency (SIA) on Saturday carried out raids at 19 different locations in the Valley in connection with 11 FIRs registered in connection with increasing misuse of SIM cards by militants, their overground workers (OGWs) associates, narcotics smugglers and other criminals.Īccording to a statement by SIA, A majority of the premises belonged to Point of Sale (POS) vendors who sold these cards in violation of Department of Telecom regulations and in a manner that amounts to forgery and cheating.
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