Topic: NIA

Khurram Parvez, a prominent human rights defender in the Valley and the coordinator of the civil-society group Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society has been arrested by National Investigation Agency, journalists in Kashmir informed via Twitter.

A photojournalist from Kashmir valley, Manan Gulzar Dar, was one of eight persons arrested under draconian UAPA by the National Investigation Agency in a militant conspiracy case.

On 10 October, Jammu and Kashmir Police summoned Aijaz Ah Bhat, 23, to the police station for interrogation. At the station, he was informed...

The raids by National Investigation Agency (NIA) are meaningless and an open attempt to harass, intimidate and restrict the sympathizers of banned Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir from carrying any activity on their personal and individual capacities for the ultimate good of the society at large, former heads of the banned organisation said in a joint press statement on Tuesday.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday conducted simultaneous raids on the premises of Jammu and Kashmir Jamaat-e-Islami activists over a dozen places across Jammu and Kashmir as part of its probe into their alleged support and funding of terror activities in the Union Territory.

Protesting the "custodial death" of the Jesuit priest and human rights activist Father Stan Swamy, the Bhima Koregaon accused prisoners who were lodged in Taloja jail in Maharashtra have announced to sit on a one-day hunger strike on Wednesday. Meanwhile, alleged Maoist leader Roopesh, an undertrial prisoner in Viyyur jail in Kerala, have observed a day-long hunger strike on Wednesday protesting the same.