Daijiworld Media Network - Srinagar

Srinagar, Sep 3: J&K Police on Thursday attached several properties belonging to the banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) organisation in Sopore sub-division of Baramulla district.

Police said two double-storeyed buildings, six shops and two kanals of land in Sopore’s Dooru area, linked to the proscribed organisation, were attached following completion of legal proceedings under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UA(P) Act).

The action stems from FIR No. 42/2025 registered at Sopore Police Station under Sections 10 and 13 of the UA(P) Act. The properties, comprising the premises of the closed Islamia Model School in Dooru, were notified under Section 8(1) of the UA(P) Act by the Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, on August 12.

Subsequently, the District Magistrate, Baramulla, issued orders under Sections 8(3) and 8(4), following which Sopore Police, along with an Executive Magistrate, carried out the attachment in accordance with law.

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) banned Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir (JeI) as an unlawful association under the UA(P) Act in February 2019 and extended the ban for another five years in February 2024.

The JeI was declared an unlawful association under Section 3(1) of the Act.

The government has stated that the organisation continues to foment terrorism, spread anti-India propaganda, fuel secessionism and support terror groups such as Hizbul Mujahideen.

In 1987, JeI contested the J&K Assembly elections as part of the Muslim United Front (MuF). One of its senior-most leaders, Mohammad Yusuf Shah, contested against the National Conference (NC) candidate from the Amira Kadal constituency in Srinagar district.

The seat was won by the NC candidate, but the MuF alleged large-scale bungling in the elections. Yusuf Shah later became the supreme commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen terror outfit under the codename Syed Salahuddin. He is currently in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).