Terror funding: NIA grills traders’ body head, PhD student

YASIN KHAN OF KASHMIR TRADERS FEDERATION, AND PHD SCHOLAR AALA FAZIL WERE EXAMINED , AN NIA OFFICIAL SAID

NEW DELHI : The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday examined the head of a traders’ body and a Kashmir University PhD student in connection with a case of terror funding in Kashmir, officials said.

Yasin Khan of Kashmir Traders and Marketing Federation, and PhD scholar Aala Fazil have been examined here, an NIA spokesman said.

They were summoned by the probe agency to appear before it .

The duo were questioned about alleged funding to various groups that pelted stones at security forces, he said.

The NIA had registered a case on May 30 against separatist and secessionist leaders, including unidentified members of the Hurriyat Conference, who have been acting in connivance with active militants of proscribed terrorist organisations Hizbul Mujahideen, Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Lashkare-Taiba (LeT) and other outfits and gangs.

The case was registered for raising, receiving and collecting funds through various illegal means, including hawala, for funding separatist and terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir and for causing disruption in the Valley by pelting the security forces with stones, burning schools, damaging public property and waging war against India, the National Investigation Agency said in the first information report.

Hafiz Saeed, the Pakistanbased chief of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the front of the banned terrorist organisation Lashkare-Taiba (LeT), has been named in the FIR as an accused.