NIA to file charge sheet this month in its ongoing investigation into terror funding case

Srinagar, December 2: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will soon file charge sheet in its ongoing investigation into terror funding and money laundering case. Notably, NIA has intensified its efforts in a bid to curb terror funding and subversive activities in the Jammu and Kashmir valley and have arrested many separatists since July last year.

 

Notably, the NIA’s inspector general Alok Mittal while talking to a local media in Srinagar on Monday said that the investigation agency will file a charge sheet in its ongoing investigation into terror funding case in the third week of January.

Nearly a dozen people have been arrested by the probe agency in connection with the case in the past six months. The case was registered by the NIA against separatist leader Nayeem Khan after he confessed in a sting operation that was surface on TV of receiving funds from Pakistan to create unrest in the Kashmir Valley.

After the video surfaced, the NIA registered a preliminary probe against Khan, Tehreek-e-Hurriyat leader Gazi Javed Baba and Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (R) chairman Farooq Ahmed Dar alias Bitta Karate. Two weeks after the sting operation, the NIA also summoned several Hurriyat leaders, including Khan, Karate, Baba and Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s son-in-law Altaf Fantoosh for questioning at its headquarters in New Delhi.

Before registering the case, the NIA raided dozens of locations in Delhi, Haryana and Kashmir in connection with the terror funding case. During these raids, the NIA recovered Rs 1.25 crore in Srinagar and Rs 35 lakh in Delhi. Interestingly, this the first time since the rise of terrorism in Kashmir in the early 1990s, NIA had carried out raids in connection with the funding of separatists.