SRINAGAR: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday conducted raids in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district in connection with the encounter that had taken place at Ban toll plaza near Nagrota on January 31.“Among many other residential premises, the house of top Jaish-e-Muhammad commander Zahid Ahmad Wani at Karimabad in Pulwama was raided by NIA on Wednesday morning,” an official source said.NIA also raided the house of Sameer Ahmad Dar at Gundibagh in Kakapora , he added. Sameer, a driver by profession, was arrested by J&K police along with two other Jaish over-ground workers — Asif Ahmed Malik and Sartaj Ahmad Mantu — following the Nagrota encounter. They were ferrying three Pakistani Jaish terrorists, who all were killed.Sameer is a cousin of slain terrorist Aadil Ahmad Dar, who had carried out the deadly suicide attack in Pulwama in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed on February 14 last year.