NIA questions Hizb chief’s 4 sons in terror funding case
Syed Salahuddin’s elder son Shahid Yusuf is already in judicial custody in Tihar Jail
The National Investigation Agency, probing the funding of the secessionist activities in Kashmir, has questioned six relatives, including four sons of Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin.
The central agency had summoned relatives of Salahuddin in connection with a six-year-old case of financing of the Hizb, which has been declared a terrorist organisation by the UN Security Council.
“We examined four sons of Salahuddin and his two other relatives today in Srinagar. All six people were sent back home,” Inspector General of Police, NIA, Alok Mittal told Kashmir Post.
Mittal said the six relatives of Salahuddin were questioned in the case of Hizb financing in which the elder son of Salahuddin, Shahid Yusuf, is in judicial custody in Tihar Jail, New Delhi.
Shahid, 42, of Soibugh village in Budgam district was arrested in October. He has been accused by the NIA of “receiving and collecting funds through international wire money transfer” from a Saudi Arabia-based Kashmiri, Aijaz Maqbool Bhat.
Bhat, according to the NIA, is a member of the Hizb and is an absconder in the hawala funding case against the six members of the militant outfit.
The NIA identified the Hizb chief’s four sons, who were questioned today, as Dr Syed Abdul Wahid, Abdul Mueed, Syed Khalid and Syed Farooq. The other two have been identified as Muzamil Khan of Darmuna Soibugh in Budgam and Syed Muhammad Yusuf of Hyderpora, Srinagar.
The NIA has filed two chargesheets against the six accused persons in the case, which dates back to 2011 when the Delhi Police’s special cell registered a case against Hizbul Mujahideen under Sections 13, 17, 18, and 20 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
The NIA has already arrested four persons and issued red corner notice against the two absconding accused persons, including Aijaz Bhat and Muhammad Maqbool Bhat, a trader from Srinagar.
Mittal said Shahid was one of the several Indian contacts of Bhat who had been in telephonic contact with him to receive the money transfer code.
The 2011 case
The NIA has filed two chargesheets against six accused persons in a case which dates back to 2011 when the Delhi Police booked Hizbul Mujahideen under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967
Six relatives of Salahuddin were questioned on Wednesday in the case of Hizb financing in which the elder son of Salahuddin, Shahid Yusuf, is in judicial custody in Tihar Jail, New Delhi
Shahid has been accused of “receiving and collecting funds through international wire money transfer” from a Saudi Arabia-based Kashmiri, Aijaz Maqbool Bhat
