Terror funding case: ED attaches J&Ok separatist Shabir Ahmad Shah’s Srinagar home
By PTI
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday mentioned it has connected Jammu and Kashmir separatist chief Shabir Ahmad Shah’s Srinagar home as a part of a cash laundering probe linked to a case of fuelling terrorist actions within the Union territory.
The home, price Rs 21.80 lakh, is situated in Botshah colony, Sanat Nagar, in Srinagar’s Barzulla police station space, officers mentioned.
The cash laundering case in opposition to Shah stems from an FIR filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in May 2017 in opposition to Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed and others underneath numerous sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
“Shabir Ahmad Shah was actively involved in the activities of fuelling unrest in Kashmir valley by way of stone pelting, processions, protests, bandhs, hartals and other subversive activities. He was involved in receiving funds from terrorist organisation Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) and other terrorists outfits based in Pakistan as well as from the Pakistani establishment through hawala and various other means and channels and these funds were then being used for fuelling and supporting militant activities in the Kashmir valley,” the ED mentioned in a press release.
Shah was arrested by the ED in 2017 from Srinagar and is presently lodged in a Delhi jail.
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday mentioned it has connected Jammu and Kashmir separatist chief Shabir Ahmad Shah’s Srinagar home as a part of a cash laundering probe linked to a case of fuelling terrorist actions within the Union territory.
The home, price Rs 21.80 lakh, is situated in Botshah colony, Sanat Nagar, in Srinagar’s Barzulla police station space, officers mentioned.
The cash laundering case in opposition to Shah stems from an FIR filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in May 2017 in opposition to Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed and others underneath numerous sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
“Shabir Ahmad Shah was actively involved in the activities of fuelling unrest in Kashmir valley by way of stone pelting, processions, protests, bandhs, hartals and other subversive activities. He was involved in receiving funds from terrorist organisation Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) and other terrorists outfits based in Pakistan as well as from the Pakistani establishment through hawala and various other means and channels and these funds were then being used for fuelling and supporting militant activities in the Kashmir valley,” the ED mentioned in a press release.
Shah was arrested by the ED in 2017 from Srinagar and is presently lodged in a Delhi jail.
