SrinagarNational Investigation Agency? (NIA) on Thursday issued summons to the elder son of Hurriyat (G) Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani for questioning in alleged terror-funding case.
29 others have also been summoned on charges of funding terror activities the state.
NIA sources were quoted by IANS as saying that the summons had been issued to Naseem Geelani, who is a doctor, and others including those accused of pelting stones at security forces.
Meanwhile, senior separatist leader Shabir Shah will be subjected to a seven-day custodial interrogation by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) with a Delhi court yesterday allowing investigators to examine him in a decade-old case of money laundering.
Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma sent Shah to ED custody after the agency submitted that he was not cooperating with the investigators.
The case assumes importance as investigating agencies have cracked down on the Hurriyat leaders and yesterday, a court had allowed the NIA to interrogate in its custody Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s son-in-law – Altaf Ahmed Shah, popularly known as Altaf Fantosh – and six other separatist leaders in a separate case of alleged terror funding in the valley to fuel unrest.
The agency told the court that a lot of money transactions were being probed in which Shah was not cooperating and despite multiple summons, he evaded the central probe agency.
Shabir Shah, however, denied the allegations and claimed that he was already being kept under house arrest.
The court had earlier issued a non-bailable warrant against Shah after the ED claimed that he was evading summons issued to him in pursuance of the August 2005 case in which the Delhi Police’s Special Cell had arrested Mohammed Aslam Wani (35), an alleged hawala dealer.
Wani had claimed that he had given Rs 2.25 crore to Shah, following which the ED had registered a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against the duo.
Wani was arrested with a large cache of ammunition and Rs 63 lakh, allegedly received through ‘hawala’ channels from the Middle East, on August 26, 2005, the agency had said.
Shah’s arrest came a day after Altaf and others – Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Shahid-ul-Islam, Merajuddin Kalwal, Nayeem Khan and Farooq Ahmed Dar – were arrested by the NIA from the valley in a separate case of terror funding there.
The seven were later produced before a Delhi court yesterday which sent them to 10 days’ NIA custody to examine their complicity in the case.
The NIA submitted that it had received information that Hafiz Saeed, head of Jamat-ul-Dawah, and separatists, including members of Hurriyat Conference, had been acting in connivance with banned outfits like Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Dukhtaran-e-Millat and others, to raise and receive funds from inside and abroad through illegal channels, including hawala.
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