Terror funding: NIA summons Geelani’s grandson for questioning
Srinagar: National Investigation Agency (NIA) has once again summoned Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani’s grandson to New Delhi for questioning in an alleged militancy funding case, reports said.
Anees ul Islam, who is son of Altaf Shah, has been summoned by the central probe agency to appear for questioning in New Delhi on 9th July, reported PTI.
“…whereas it appears that you are acquainted with the circumstances of the case noted below, which is now under investigation by the NIA New Delhi, you are hereby required to appear at National Investigation Agency, Ministry of Home Affairs, Opposite CGO Complex, Lodhi road New Delhi-110003 on 09-07-2019 at 1000 hrs for the purpose of your examination relating to the case,” the agency quoted a notice issued to Anees by the NIA.
Particulars of the case: NIA CRIME No. RC-10/2017/NIA/DLI. Under section 120B, 121 and 121A of IPC, section 13,16,17,18,20,38,39 & 40 of UA (P) Act, 1967.”
Anees’s father Altaf Shah alias ‘fantoosh’ is Geelani’s son-in-law and has been in Tihar jail for over a year now.
The NIA probe seeks to identify the chain of players behind the financing of terrorist activities, stone pelting on security forces, burning down of schools and damaging of government establishments.
The case names Hafiz Saeed, the Pakistan-based chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), the front for the banned Lashker-e-Taiba, as an accused.
It also names organisations such as the Hurriyat Conference factions led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the Hizbul Mujahideen and the Dukhtaran-e-Millat. (PTI)
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