KNZ NEWS DESK
Srinagar : A Delhi court on Tuesday granted permission to formally arrest pro-freedom leaders Asiya Andrabi, Masarat Alam and Shabir Shah in connection with a ‘terror’ funding case involving Lashkar-e-Taiba co-founder Hafiz Saeed.
According to media reports the trio has been sent to National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody for 10 days.
The three currently lodged in Tihar jail, faced an investigation conducted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the NIA.
The probe agency had filed an FIR on May 30, 2017, against the resistance leaders. They were charged with conniving with militant of organisations such as Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief Asiya, and Shah were already in custody in separate cases while Alam was brought from Jammu and Kashmir on transit remand, advocate MS Khan appearing for the accused told PTI.
The NIA had filed a charge sheet against Saeed in 2018, another ‘terror’ mastermind Syed Salahuddin and 10 Kashmiri leaders in a case of alleged ‘terror’ funding and secessionist activities in the Valley. It said that offences for which a charge sheet has been filed include crimes punishable under sections 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and various provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
