The National Investigation Agency has summoned two Kashmiri separatist leaders to its headquarters in Delhi on Monday in connection with a case related to funding of terror and subversive activities in Jammu and Kashmir.
Farooq Ahmad Dar alias ‘Bitta Karate’ and Javed Ahmed Baba alias ‘Gazi’ of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat have been asked to bring certain bank and property documents, besides other papers, before the NIA team that had questioned them here for four consecutive days earlier this month.
The questioning comes after the agency named Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba chief Hafeez Saeed, hardline Kashmiri separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Jammu and Kashmir National Front Chairman Nayeem Khan in a Preliminary Enquiry (PE). Mr. Khan has since been suspended from the Geelani-led Hurriyat Conference.
Sting operation
The case is based on a sting operation, aired on a news channel, in which Mr. Khan was purportedly shown confessing to receiving money from Pakistan-based terror groups through hawala channels.
Mr. Dar alias ‘Bitta Karate’ and Baba alias ‘Gazi’, who were also named in the PE, will be again questioned for their alleged involvement in raising, collecting and transferring funds through hawala and other channels for terror funding in Kashmir as well as fuelling unrest and promoting stone-pelting in the Valley.
