Three Hurriyat leaders detained by police in Srinagar

Three Hurriyat leaders were detained by police in Srinagar. These leaders were to be questioned by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Delhi. (Representative image)

Three Hurriyat leaders were detained by police in Srinagar, according to ANI report. These leaders were to be questioned by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Delhi. Police have detained Ayaz Akbar, Altaf Shah and Mehraj ud Din Kalwal, the ANI report says. Earlier on June 3, NIA had carried out searches at 14 places in Kashmir and eight places in the national capital in connection with terror funding received from Pakistan for carrying out subversive activities in the Valley.

The NIA, which had earlier registered a Preliminary Enquiry, converted it into a Regular Case (RC) last evening and began searches in the wee hours at the residences of second-rung separatist leaders in the Valley. Around eight hawala dealers and traders in the national capital were also raided, official sources were quoted as saying by PTI.

Among those raided were close aides and kin of hardline separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani and others in the Hurriyat Conference. Two places in Sonepat were also being searched by the NIA teams in this connection, the PTI reports.

The raids follow questioning of three separatist– Nayeem Khan, who was seen on television during a sting operation purportedly confessing to receiving money from Pakistan-based terror groups, Farooq Ahmed Dar alias ‘Bitta Karate’ and Gazi Javed Baba of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat, in the national capital last month, the report says. The separatists were allegedly receiving funds from the chief of Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT), Hafiz Saeed, to carry out subversive activities in the Kashmir Valley, including pelting stones at security forces, damaging public property and burning schools and other government establishments.

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