Terror funding: KTMF Prez Mohammad Yasin Khan arrives in Srinagar after NIA questioning in Delhi
Srinagar, Apr 20 (UNI) President of the Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation (KTMF) Mohammad Yasin Khan on Saturday arrived in this summer capital, after being questioned by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) at its headquarters in New Delhi for two days, in a terror funding case.
'Mr Khan arrived home on Saturday evening, after being questioned by the NIA for two days at New Delhi,' a KTMF official told UNI.
The national probe agency had issued a notice to Khan, directing him to appear before its New Delhi headquarters on April 18.
Khan, who is also the chief of Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA), was questioned by the NIA in September, 2017 for six days, before he was allowed to go to Srinagar.
Meanwhile, Dr Naeem Geelani, elder son of hardline Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Geelani, had received the second summon from the NIA, asking him to appear before the probe agency's Delhi headquarters on April 22, for questioning. This is the second time in a week that Naeem has been summoned by the NIA.
Moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Moulvi Omar Farooq was questioned in the first week of April for three days in New Delhi, before he was allowed to go back to Srinagar. Mirwaiz had refused to travel to Delhi on earlier two occasions, citing security and other reasons.
The state government in February withdrew security cover to Mirwaiz, following directions by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to review security and other facilities of all separatist leaders, after the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) fidayeen attack on CRPF convoy at Awantipora on Srinagar-Jammu national highway that left 44 jawans dead in February.
The NIA and the Enforcement Directorate have already arrested about two dozen separatists and businessmen and lodged them in Delhi's Tihar jail, for their involvement in alleged terror funding.
They included Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) chief Shabir Ahmad Shah and Spokespersons of both the factions of the HC- Aiyaz Akbar, Advocate Shahidul Islam and Naeem Khan.
The list further included sons of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK)-based Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) Syed Salahuuddin, apart from son and son-in-law of Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
The security forces, during raids after Pulwama attack, had arrested about 200 leaders of HC, Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and Jamait-ul-Ahalhadees (JuA), from different parts of the valley.
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