Enough evidence against Mirwaiz, others: NIA

Letterheads of Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jamat-ud-Dawa, HizbulMujahideen and other organisations are among various “significant evidences” that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) says are enough to book top separatist leaders, including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in its ongoing probe in a funding case.

An NIA officer, privy to the investigation, told IANS that Mirwaiz and more than six top separatist leaders “may soon face the heat” in the case the agency registered in May 2017.

   

The officer, however, did not clarify whether an FIR will be registered against these separatist leaders or they will be arrested. He only confirmed that “something big would happen soon before June”.

Asked about the names of those separatist leaders, the officer, on condition of anonymity, said Yasin Malik, chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, and NaseemGeelani, son of Syedd Ali Shah Geelani, are on the NIA list. The agency on March 9 issued summons to them to appear before its headquarters here for questioning.

Naseem has been questioned on more than three occasions in the case.

Other separatist leaders on NIA radar are Muhammad Ashraf Khan, chairman Tehreek-e-Hurriyat; MasaratAlam, general secretary All Party Hurriyat Conference (G), and Zaffar Akbar Bhat, chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Salvation Movement.

Scrutiny of a high-tech internet communication setup and documents relating to recommendations for visa for admission in a few Pakistan educational institutions are other evidence which are crucial in linking relations of Farooq and other suspected separatist leaders to Pakistan-based militant outfits, said the official.

According to the official, some property papers, financial transactions receipts, bank account details and electronic devices including laptops, e-tablets, mobile phones, pen drives, communication system and digital video recorders are also the part of these evidence that are enough to prove how these separatist leaders have been indulging in “anti-national operations” on directions of the heads of these militant groups.

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