
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) attached two properties belonging to Mohammad Akbar Khanday, separatist leader of All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC). The properties include nine Kanal land and a 2-storeyed house in Srinagar. These have been attached on the orders of the Special NIA Court, New Delhi, under section 33(1) of UAPA.
This comes a day after attaching 17 properties of Kashmiri businessman, Zahoor Ahmed Shah Watali.
As perthe NIA, Khanday, currently in Tihar Jail facing trial in the terror funding case, was the Spokesperson/ Media advisor of Hurriyat Conference (G). He was raising and collecting funds from within India and abroad through various illegal channels and was using the same to sponsor and promote separatist and terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir.
“Khanday, who was closely connected with other separatist leaders of the APHC, was operating in close association with Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) and he used to collect funds for unlawful and violent activities. He was also actively involved in activities aimed at the secession of Jammu and Kashmir from the Union of India, NIA investigations have revealed,“ said NIA.
The NIA added that the case, filed suo moto by NIA in May 2017, relates to terrorist and secessionist activities being carried out by ISI-backed proscribed terrorist organisations in Jammu and Kashmir. These banned outfits, including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) etc, were using the APHC as a front for their activities, NIA investigations have revealed.
The press release of NIA said that they were spreading terror and perpetrating violence in the Kashmir Valley by promoting and conducting attacks on civilians and security forces.
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The agency has so far filed a charge sheet against 17 people, including Hafeez Saeed, the Amir of Jamaat-ud-Dawah and LeT and aUN-listed terrorist, as well as Mohd. Yusuf Shah, also known asSyed Salahuddin, the Chief of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM).
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