Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Feb 14: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today said that they arrested three persons including a woman in Kashmir under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The arrested have been identified as Mohammad Akbar Bhat, Fatima Shah and Sabzar Ahmad Shaikh. An official said that the accused were involved in terror financing and were hand in glove with Pakistani handlers Manzoor Ahmad Shah and Altaf Ahmad Bhat, who arranged admissions in MBBS and other courses in the colleges of Pakistan for students from Jammu and Kashmir.
The official futher said that they have been remanded to ED custody till February 20 by the court of the Special Judge ACB (CBI-Cases) Kashmir.
Last week, the ED arrested one Mohammad Abdullah Shah in the same case.
The ED last month attached properties worth Rs 5 crore of several persons in the case of Mohammad Akbar Bhat and others about terrorist activities.
The ED had initiated an investigation based on an FIR registered and charge sheet issued by the Police for the offences under various Sections of the Unlawful Activity (Prevention) Act and IPC, 1860 against Mohammad Akbar Bhat, Fatima Shah, Altaf Ahmad Bhat, Qazi Yasir, Syed Khalid Geelani alias Khalid Andrabi and others wherein accused persons were hand in glove with Pakistan handlers who arranged admissions in MBBS and another course in the colleges of Pakistan for Jammu and Kashmir students for a hefty money around Rs 10-15 lakh per student.
The money was received in their accounts and in the bank accounts of Al-Jabar Trust which was a trust opened for charitable purposes. “However, these accounts were used to receive funds from the students and further ploughed into the terrorist activities in India in various ways such as distributing money to stone pelters, providing money to the persons/terrorists based in Jammu and Kashmir on the instructions of Pakistan handlers such as Manzoor Ahmad Shah and Altaf Ahmad Bhat,” it said.
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