Srinagar: Three separatist leaders were arrested on Wednesday and remained in preventive custody before being flown to Delhi for interrogation by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
All three will be flown to Delhi by the NIA.
The separatist leaders include Altaf Ahmad Shah, son-in-law of Hurriyat (G) Chairman Syed Ali Geelani, Ayaz Akbar and Merajudin Kalwal both from Geelani-led Hurriyat group.
They have been lodged in the uptown Rajbagh police station, an officer said. Altaf Shah had been questioned over several days earlier in Delhi.
Before their arrests on Wednesday, NIA officials raided the houses of the three leaders.
A Delhi based TV news channel last month showed how separatist leaders Nayeem Khan, Farooq Ahmad Dar alias Bitta Karate and Qazi Baba accepted that they had been receiving funds through hawala channels to foment trouble in the Kashmir Valley.
The NIA took cognizance of the expose and registered an FIR following which formal questioning of select separatists began.
Raids were also carried out at many places in Srinagar, Delhi and Haryana to unearth evidence involving these separatists.
After a FIR was filed for receiving hawala funds, Nayeem Khan was suspended by Geelani from his Hurriyat group.
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