A Delhi court Wednesday took cognisance of a supplementary charge sheet filed by the National Investigation Agency against Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik and others in the 2017 terror funding case. Additional Sessions Judge Rakesh Syal took cognisance of the final report which also names separatist leaders Asiya Andrabi, Shabir Shah and Masarat Alam Bhat as accused.
LHC Chief Justice Sardar Shamim Ahmed heard a petition filed by Saeed in which he said that he was being kept in a jail in Lahore but was transported to Gujranwala for every appearance before the court.
Days after three people were arrested in Madhya Pradesh for allegedly being part of a terror funding racket with Pakistan links, Chief Minister Kamal Nath has sought a report on how one them managed to procure bail in a similar case in 2017.
An NIA statement quoted Muslim League leader Masrat Alam, the so-called poster boy of stone pelters in the Valley, as telling NIA officials that Pakistan-based agents routed the funds raised abroad to Jammu and Kashmir through hawala operators.
The matter dates back to June 2017 when a case was filed against terrorists belonging to Jammat ud Dawah, Duktaran-e-Millat, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen and other separatist leaders in Jammu and Kashmir for raising, receiving and collecting funds for funding separatist and terrorist activities in the valley and entering into a larger conspiracy for causing disruption in Kashmir valley and for waging war against India.
The NIA produced Yasin Malik before a Delhi court in connection with a case related to funding of separatists and terror groups in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday. The court has sent him on an NIA remand till April 22.
Moderate separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq will appear before the NIA Monday in connection with a case related to terror funding after he was assured by the probe agency that his security would be ensured, officials said here Sunday.
The residences and offices of close aides and companies associated with PLFI chief Dinesh Gope in Ranchi, Gumla, Khunti and Kolkata were searched for their alleged role in the financing of the PLFI, according to an NIA spokesperson.
The court issued the warrants on Thursday against the two Pakistan-based terrorist leaders for their active involvement in terror funding for creating unrest in the Kashmir valley and other parts of India.
The 28-year-old Shah was the kingpin of the gang of six involved in criminal conspiracy and distributing money into various bank accounts on the instructions given by a Pakistani handler were arrested on March 24 from Gorakhpur.
The arrests were made in syncronised raids in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur, Pratapgarh and Lucknow along with Madhya Pradesh's Riva.
Watali, who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on charges of receiving funds from Pakistan to sponsor terror activities and stone-pelting in Kashmir, is at present lodged in Tihar jail.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed the 1,279- page chargesheet before a designated court in New Delhi and sought permission to continue its probe.
The NIA today arrested Kashmir-based businessman Zahoor Watali, a day after it conducted raids at 12 locations in the Valley.
Continuing their crackdown on separatist leaders in the terror funding case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) teams are conducting raids at 12 locations in Srinagar and north Kashmir’s Baramulla and Handwara
Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah, who was arrested in a decade-old money laundering case for alleged terror financing, was today sent to 14-day judicial custody.
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