The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Naseem Geelani, son of Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, to appear before it on March 22 at its New Delhi headquarters.
He has been summoned under section 50 of “The Prevention ofMoney-Laundering Act, 2002”.
The ED notice to Naseem, a professor at agricultureuniversity Srinagar (SKUAST), comes less than a week after the NationalInvestigation Agency summoned him to New Delhi in connection with a case filedinto the alleged funding of militancy in Kashmir.
The ED summons, signed by assistant directorate, ED, weredelivered at the residence of Naseem on Friday evening, a family source said.
In 2017, the ED had summoned Syed Ali Geelani to its officein Srinagar for hearing in a case dating back to June 2002.
In July 2017, the ED arrested separatist leader Shabir AhmadShah in a money-laundering case dating back to 2005. Shah is presently lodgedin Delhi’s Tihar jail.
Meanwhile, the ED Friday moved a Delhi court seeking its nodto quiz separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s son-in-law Altaf Shah inconnection with a militancy-funding case.
The Enforcement Directorate also sought to question ZahoorWatali, an influential businessman allegedly having friendship with Pakistanileaders and Kashmiri separatists, and Naval Kishore Kapoor, a UAE-basedbusinessman.
Shah, Watali and Kapoor were arrested by the NIA in the fundingcase and are lodged in Tihar jail.
The court will hear the matter on March 19.
The NIA had earlier filed a charge sheet against theaccused, including Hizbul Mujahideen head Syed Salahuddin, in the case accusingthem of “conspiring to wage war against the government” and fomentingtrouble in the Kashmir Valley.
The agency has charged Hafiz Saeed and Salahuddin, besides 10 others with criminal conspiracy, sedition, and under stringent provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. GKNN/PTI