NIA raids Khurram Parvaiz’s office in Budgam

SRINAGAR — The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday raided an NGO office of jailed Khurram Parvaiz in central Kashmir’s Budgam district.

Reports from the news agency KDC said that a team of NIA conducted searches at an NGO office at Dandoosa area in Budgam. The office is of Khurram Parvaiz, they said.

An official confirmed and said, “Yes, the NIA team conducted searches at the NGO office at Dandoosa Budgam. Some documents have been seized during searches.”

The searches were conducted in an ‘NGO terror funding’ case. Parvaz is already in jail in a ‘terror-funding case’ and was charge-sheeted in May last year.

Following the first arrest made in the funding case on March 20, 2023, the National Investigation Agency arrested Khurram Parvez, the program coordinator of Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Societies (JKCCS) and chairperson of the Philippines-based NGO Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD).