City
Epaper

Court accepts NIA terror funding charge sheet against Yasin Malik, others

By IANS | Updated: October 23, 2019 15:15 IST

A Delhi Court on Wednesday accepted charge sheet filed in terror funding case against Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik and others.

Open in App

The court directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to supply the charge sheet to accused and extended their judicial custody till November 17, the next date fixed for hearing.

On October 4, NIA charge-sheeted Malik, as well as the founder and President of the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party Shabir Shah, Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief Asiya Andrabi, All Party Hurriyat Conference General Secretary Masarat Alam and former MLA Rashid Engineer.

It was the second supplementary charge sheet in the terror funding case filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) here in a special court under new Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

The agency charged them of allegedly receiving funds from Pakistan to carry out terrorist activities and stone pelting in 2010 and 2016.

Malik was arrested on April 4 for his role in fomenting unrest in Kashmir during separatist agitations in 2010, and in 2016 after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani.

Submitting the charge sheet, the agency said fresh material have surfaced in the form of social media evidence, call records, oral and documentary evidence.

"New material shows the relationship of the persons charge-sheeted with the cross border accused Hafiz Saeed (co-founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and the chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawah) and Syed Salahudeen (the head of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen)," said the NIA.

The NIA in 2017 arrested several separatists belonging to the two factions of Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Syed Ali Shah Geelani, respectively, for terror funding.

In its first charge sheet filed last year, the agency named Geelani's son-in-law Altaf Fantosh, Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Ahmed Shah Watali, Naeem Khan, Raja Mehrajudin Kalwal, Bashir Ahmed Bhat, alias Peer Saifullah, Aftab Hilali Shah, alias Shahid ul Islam, Farooq Ahmed Dar, alias Bitta Karate, Mohammad Akbar Khandey, alias Ayaz Akbar and Javed Ahmed Bhat, among others.

The NIA had registered the case in May 2017 against various separatist leaders who were acting in connivance with terrorist organisations like Hizbul Mujahideen, Dukhtaran-e-Millat, and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) for collecting funds through illegal means for funding terrorist activities and stone pelting in Jammu and Kashmir.

( With inputs from IANS )

Tags: NIAkashmirNaeem KhanjammuHizbul Mujahideen
Open in App

Related Stories

MumbaiMumbai Cyber Fraud: Scammers Impersonate ATS & NIA, Dupe Couple of ₹2.84 Crore

MumbaiMumbai: Senior Citizen Duped of ₹2.25 Crore in Cyber Fraud in Goregaon, One Arrested

NationalKashmir Fire: Blaze Broke Out at Government Girls Higher Secondary School in Qazigund; Two Firefighters Injured

MumbaiMumbai: Elderly Man Duped of ₹16.5 Lakh by Cyber Fraudster Posing as Former NIA Chief

NationalAyodhya Police Detain Kashmiri Man for Allegedly Offering Namaz Inside Ram Mandir

National Realted Stories

NationalIndia sweeps UN elections unopposed to ECOSOC bodies

NationalPolling underway for Assam elections, first-time voters seek development

NationalJammu and Kashmir: Fire at Kupwara Bus Stand Guts Seven Buses (Watch Video)

NationalReservation for women in legislative bodies will make democracy even more vibrant, participative: PM Modi

National"People are in favour of LDF": LDF's Beypore candidate PA Mohamed Riyas after casting vote