NIA questions Geelani's sons in connection with terror funding case

Hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani's sons Naseem and Nayeem on Tuesday appeared before the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for questioning in connection with the terror funding case.
 
The agency also questioned Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) Faheem, who is in-charge of another Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq's security.
 
Geelani's elder son Nayeem, a surgeon by profession, and Naseem, an employee of the Jammu and Kashmir government, were summoned by the NIA after arresting seven Hurriyat leaders last month following its investigations.
 
Sources said Nayeem, who is tipped to succeed the senior Geelani in separatist conglomerate comprising pro-Pakistan hardliner groups Tehrek-e-Hurriyat, and Nadeem were questioned on the basis of inputs it received following the grilling of seven others, including their brother-in-law Altaf Ahmed Shah, who is in NIA custody.
 
Nayeem and Naseem were summoned by the NIA earlier but had delayed their appearance before the investigators.
 
The NIA had registered a case on May 30 against the separatist and secessionist leaders, including members of the Hurriyat Conference, who have been acting in connivance with active militants of proscribed terrorist organisations HM, Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and other outfits and gangs.
 
The middle-level Hurriyat leaders operated through local leaders to reach to the youths. They were given funds to organise stone-pelting protests after suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani's encounter killing in July last year.
 
The agency had earlier recovered a protest calender authorised by the senior Geelani.

Sources said that the protests that happened after the encounter killing of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani were coordinated with the instructions from handlers in Pakistan.