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7 Hurriyat leaders in 10-day police custody

Last Updated 25 July 2017, 19:29 IST
The NIA court on Tuesday sent seven Hurriyat leaders to ten days police custody as the agency started the hunt for "big fishes" in the terror funding case.

Sources said the next course of action by the investigators is likely to send notices to top separatist leaders like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik.

Investigators are also trying to find the chain of command behind the financing of terrorist activities.

The agency sought 18 days of custody but district Judge Poonam A Bamba allowed only ten days custody in connection with its probe into a case alleged funding of terror and subversive activities in Kashmir.

The NIA told the court that all the accused -- Geelani's son-in-law Altaf Ahmed Shah, Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Shahid-ul-Islam, Mehrajuddin Kalwal, Nayeem Khan and Farooq Ahmed Dar -- were to be confronted with each other and need to be taken to other places.

Opposing the NIA plea, the accused's lawyer argued that the probe is on for about a month.

The houses of those arrested had been raided by NIA sleuths last month.

The raids were part of the NIA's efforts at clamping down on separatist groups allegedly receiving funds for subversive activities in the Valley.

The NIA had claimed that it recovered account books, Rs two crore in cash and letterheads of banned terror groups, including of the LeT and the HM, during the raids.

The NIA had on May 30 against "separatist and secessionist" leaders, including the members of Hurriyat Conference, who have been acting in connivance with active militants of proscribed terrorist organizations Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Dukhtarane Millat, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and other terrorist organizations/associations and gangs.

They were accused of  raising, receiving and collecting funds through various illegal means, including hawala, for funding separatist and terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir and for causing disruption in Kashmir Valley by way of pelting stones on the security forces, burning schools, damaging public property and waging war against India.

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(Published 25 July 2017, 10:33 IST)

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