The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday arrested Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Muhammad Yasin Malik in a funding case.
NIA inspector general of police Alok Mittal said Malik wasbrought from
Kot Bhalwal Jail, Jammu, where he has been detained underthe Public Safety Act, and produced before the NIA Special Court on Wednesdayagainst a production warrant.
He added that the NIA court has granted NIA Malik’s custodyfor 13 days.
Mittal, who is also spokesman of the NIA, said that he willnow be produced before the NIA Special Court, Patiala House Court, New Delhi,on April 22.
In the funding case it registered in 2017, the NIA hasarrested seven separatist leaders, including Hurriyat chief Syed Ali Geelani’sson-in-law Altaf Ahmed Shah, Tehreek-e-Hurriyat’s Peer Saifullah, Ayaz Akbarand Mehrajuddin Kalwal; Shahid-ul-Islam, who is from the Mirwaiz faction of theHurriyat, and Nayeem Khan of the Jammu Kashmir National Front.
Zahoor Ahmad Watali, businessman and Farooq Ahmed Dar aliasBitta Karatay are also lodged in Tihar jail in the same case.
The case also names Hafiz Saeed, the Pakistan-based chief ofJamaat-ud-Dawah, the front for the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, as an accused.
It names organisations such as Hurriyat Conference factionsled by Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the Hizbul Mujahideen andthe Dukhtaran-e-Millat.