A Delhi court on Wednesday framed charges against Mohammad Aslam Wani, an alleged member of terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad, and Kashimiri separatist leader Shabir Shah in a money laundering case.
Additional Sesssions Judge Siddharth Sharma said: “You being a member of banned organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad collected illegal hawala money from Delhi received from the Pakistani terrorist outfit and delivered the same on various occasions to co-accused Shabir Shah in Srinagar for the purpose of promoting terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir...”
“I hereby direct that you both accused persons be tried for the above offences,” Mr. Sharma said.
The Enforcement Directorate had charge-sheeted both accused in September this year.
Wani, 36, said in his statement to the probe agency that he had came to Delhi from Srinagar at the direction of Shah sometime in April, 2003, and that was the first time he had met him.
The Directorate alleged that Wani was asked by Shah to work for him (on a commission basis) in collecting hawala money from Delhi and deliver it to him in Srinagar.
While reading the charges to Wani, the judge said: “You were receiving a commission of three per cent of the consigned money and on August 26 you were apprehended and a hawala money of ₹62.96 lakh was recovered out of which ₹52.96 was to be delivered to co-accused Shabir Shah.”
The accused denied the charges.
