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Terror funding: NIA in Srinagar to quiz separatist leader Geelani, 3 others

SRINAGAR: A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) reached here on Friday to quiz separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and three others, alleged to be involved in subversive activities and receiving funds from LeT chief Hafiz Saeed.

Terror funding: NIA in Srinagar to quiz separatist leader Geelani, 3 others


Srinagar, May 19

A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) reached here on Friday to quiz separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and three others, alleged to be involved in subversive activities and receiving funds from LeT chief Hafiz Saeed.

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The investigating agency has registered a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) against Geelani and Naeem 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 the Tehreek-e-Hurriyat.

An NIA spokesperson said the separatists were receiving funds from Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) chief 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 stablishments.

The NIA has also taken cognisance of a news item related to the recording of conversations between a TV reporter and leaders of separatist groups operating in the Kashmir Valley in this regard, he said. — PTI

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