Srinagar: India has further tightened its iron grip on Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir as the National Investigation Agency (NIA) carried out coordinated raids at six locations across Sopore, Bandipora and Srinagar.

According to Global Mirror, NIA teams, backed by Indian Police and paramilitary forces, conducted simultaneous search operations at residential and other premises in north and central Kashmir, in yet another move reflecting New Delhi’s policy of intimidation, collective punishment and repression under the garb of so-called “terror investigations”.

Observers say such operations have increasingly become tools to harass civilians, traumatize families and criminalize entire communities in the occupied territory.