Jammu & Kashmir : Tightening the Grip
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Jammu & Kashmir : Tightening the Grip

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Aug 1, 2017, 01:00 pm IST
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For the first time since the rise of terrorism in Kashmir, a Central agency has carried out raids in connection with the funding of separatists and it has rattled the disruptive forces

Deepak Zazia from Srinagar
By arresting seven Hurriyat leaders including Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s son-in-law Altaf Ahmad Fantoosh, Union Government has given a clear signal of hardening its stand against those who are causing blood-shed and destruction in Kashmir Valley.
Prominent among those, arrested by National Investigating Agency (NIA) are from the Sayed Ali Shah Geelani group, which has been spiting venom in Kashmir Valley against India Those arrested included Naeem Khan, whose revelations in a sting operation set the stage for the NIA’s
investigations.
Shahid-ul Islam, a very close aide of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, was arrested too. So was Farooq Dar, alias Bitta Karate, who has been a prominent member of the JKLF, which is led by Yasin Malik. The screws are thus being tightened on all the factions of the main separatist conglomerate.
This is the first time since the rise of terrorism in Kashmir in the early 1990s that a Central investigative agency has carried out raids in connection with the funding of
separatists.
In 2002, the income tax department had conducted searches against some separatist leaders including Geelani and seized cash and documents. However, no criminal case was registered then.

How evidences were collected ?

For the last one year sleuths of NIA had been tracking leaders of stone-pelters in Kashmir Valley. Mobile phones of stone-pelters were under surveillance and it was found during strict watch that Hurriyat leaders are getting money through Hawala and they are utilising this amount to spread violence in Kashmir Valley.
TheNIA had managed to track the details of telephonic conversations of as many as 48 local youths, who were regular stone-pelters, with mid-level Hurriyat leaders. These mid-level Hurriyat leaders were allegedly
connected to the top separatists The NIA sleuths
reconstructed the funding pattern, according to which the top separatists passed on funds to local leaders, who in turn paid the youths to throw stones
The NIA officers stated that it could zero in on them after one and a half months of painstaking investigation which gave it electronic evidence to prove their complicity.
Singling out the suspected youths based on their
presence at three or more stone-throwing locations in seven or eight districts in the past one year, the sources said, the NIA could zero in on around four dozen
“regular” stone-throwers and thus dig out their phone call and social media activity records.
With such electronic evidence, we would now seek to substantiate it with the investigation on the ground,
starting with custodial interrogation of the seven Hurriyat leaders.
The NIA has identified 28 prominent WhatsApp groups through which youths in the Valley are believed to be organised for stone-pelting, and is in the process of identifying their moderators. Around 6,000-7,000 youths are linked to the groups, and reportedly respond to calls for stone-pelting, and they are being tracked as well.
The agency has also identified scores of Facebook pages allegedly used to instigate and organise youths to pelt stones.

Within hours after National Investigating Agency (NIA) arrested seven Hurriyat leaders, Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested another radical leader Shabir Ahmed Shah. Shah was arrested by the ED in connection with over a decade-old money laundering case against him for alleged terror financing.
The ED had issued multiple summons to Shah, but he never deposed before the central investigating agency.
A Delhi court had earlier this month issued a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against the separatist leader. “The warrant has been executed,” a senior official said.
The agency had issued several summons to Shah over the last few years in pursuance of the August 2005 case, wherein the Delhi Police’s Special Cell had arrested Mohammed Aslam Wani (35), an alleged hawala dealer, who had claimed that he passed on Rs 2.25 crore to Shah.

Clear Message

When NIA team landed at Srinagar on May 19, the message was clear that Hurriyat leaders would be quizzed for terror funding.
On May 23, NIA quizzed three Kashmiri separatists in connection with its probe into the role of Lashker-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed and hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani in subversive activities in Jammu & Kashmir.
The NIA team, headed by the additional director-general, had asked Nayeem Khan, Farooq Ahmed Dar alias “Bitta Karate” and Gazi Javed Baba to appear before it for for their explanation in an expose on a television channel where they had claimed to have received funds from Pakistan.
After initial reluctance, the three separatists fell in line and were questioned separately by the team of NIA, which named them in its preliminary enquiry.
Naeem Khan and Ghazi Javed Baba were asked to produce certain documents for examination.

The ED had registered a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against Shah and Wani.
Wani was arrested allegedly with Rs 63 lakh, received through ‘hawala’ channels from the Middle East, and a large cache of ammunition, on August 26, 2005.
During his questioning, he had told the police that Rs 50 lakh was to be delivered to Shah and Rs 10 lakh to Jaish-e-Mohammad area commander in Srinagar, Abu Baqar, and that the rest was his commission.
Wani, who hails from Srinagar, had also claimed that he delivered around Rs 2.25 crore to Shah and his kin in multiple installments over the past year.
Although there were sufficient proofs against separatist leaders of terror funding and Hawala money, no action was taken by the previous regimes. It is for the first time that Union Government headed by Narendra Modi has taken strong action against these leader to snap terror funding channels.
Inspector General of NIA Alok Mittal, after arresting Hurriyat leaders  described arrests as “one important step’’ and declared that investigations in the case would continue and all those found 22 connected/involved in the case would be examined, raided and appropriate action taken against them at an appropriate time.
“We have arrested the separatist leaders based on the evidence gathered during raids at various places few days back and follow up investigations,” Mittal said, adding that six arrests were made from Srinagar and one from New Delhi.
“Our investigations have made it clear that money coming from various sources was being used for terror
funding and its financial trails are being probed,’’ the NIA IG said. He added that arrests were based on the proof gathered by the investigators.
NIA has charged the separatist and secessionist leaders including the members/cadres of the Hurriyat Conference with acting in connivance with militants of proscribed terrorist organizations like Hizbul Mujahideen, Dukhtaran-e-Millat and Lashkar-e-Taiba and other terrorist organisations.
The arrest separatist leaders have been charged with raising, receiving and collecting funds through various illegal means including hawala for funding separatist and terrorist
organisations in Jammu & Kashmir.
The NIA?has registered Regular Case No. 10/2017/NIA/DLI (J&K Terror Funding Case) under various sections of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) act, 1967.
This is for the first time that the NIA had openly charged the separatist leaders of Kashmir including those belonging to the Hurriyat Conference for having links with three terror
outfits, whose activities were being openly aided and abetted by Pakistan. Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen  operate from Pakistan with their mentors Hafiz Sayeed and Syed Salahudin openly moving in the neighbouring country while Dukhtaran-e-Millat is stated to be the women wing of Hizbul Mujahideen.
Hafeez Saeed, the Pakistan-based chief of the Jamaat-ul Dawah, the front of the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), has also been named in the FIR as an accused besides organisations such as the Hurriyat Conference (factions
led by Geelani and Mirwaiz Farooq), Hizbul Mujahideen and
Dukhtaran-e-Milat.  

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