NIA teams raid residences of senior separatist leaders
Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, Yasin Malik’s house searched
Srinagar: The NIA Tuesday carried out searches on separatists in the Kashmir valley, including Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, in a terror funding case, officials said.
The NIA sleuths accompanied by local police and CRPF personnel carried out searches at nearly nine places across the valley, which included the house of Nayeem Geelani, son of pro-Pakistan separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani, they said.
Besides these, the houses of JKLF leader Yaseen Malik, Shabir Shah, Ashraf Sehrai and Zaffar Bhat were also raided.
The case relates to funds allegedly received by the separatist from Pakistan through hawala channels, the officials added.
Reports said that since Tuesday morning different teams of NIA raided the houses of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, JKLF Chief Muhammad Yasin Malik, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, Zafar Akbar Bhat, Nayeem Geelani, Masrat Alam and Shabir Ahmed Shah.
The raid at the house of Muhammad Yasin Malik who is behind the bars sparked violent clashes when youth pelted stones on the deployed forces. The Government Forces resorted to tear-smoke shelling to disperse the protesting youth. The NIA raid sparked shutdown in Maisuma.
NIA teams in their raids confiscated books, documents, cell phones, lap tops and other materials, sources said.
Meanwhile, senior separatist leader and president Anjuman Shari Shain Tuesday condemned the arbitrary and coercive act of raiding the houses of separatist leaders including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai and other political activists.
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