NEW DELHI, Apr 10: A Delhi court today sent JKLF chief Yasin Malik to NIA custody till April 22 after it sought his custodial interrogation in connection with a case related to funding of separatists and terror groups in Jammu and Kashmir.
Malik was produced before special judge Rakesh Syal where the National Investigation Agency sought the court’s permission to arrest the accused which was allowed, a court source said.
The NIA then arrested him inside the courtroom and sought 15-day custodial interrogation.
While seeking his remand, NIA counsel informed the special judge that it has credible evidence to prove that Malik received funds from Pakistan.
The proceedings in the case were heard in-camera.
Malik was brought to the national capital after a court in Kashmir granted his transit remand to the NIA. Click here to watch video
He was shifted to Delhi’s Tihar Jail yesterday after the NIA secured his production remand in connection with the terror funding case.
Malik will be facing questions from the NIA related to funding of his organisation.
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has reserved its judgment on a plea of the CBI for reopening three-decade-old cases in which Malik was an accused.
Meanwhile, the NIA questioned Mirwaiz Umar Farooq again in connection with a terror financing case, officials said here.
The Mirwaiz was questioned for the third consecutive day by the NIA. The questioning revolved around funding of his party, Hurriyat Conference and Joint Resistance Front, an amalgam of his moderate Hurriyat Conference as well as the hardline faction led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani and JKLF.
There were reports that both the separatists were confronted with each other but there was no confirmation officially about it.
The NIA registered a case on May 30, 2017 against separatist and secessionist leaders, including unknown members of the Hurriyat Conference, who have been acting in connivance with active militants of proscribed terrorist organisations Hizbul Mujahideen, Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and other outfits and gangs.
The case was registered for raising, receiving and collecting funds through various illegal means, including hawala transactions, for funding separatist and terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir and for causing disruption in the Valley by way of pelting stones on the security forces, burning schools, damaging public property and waging war against India, the probe agency said in the FIR.
Hafiz Saeed, the Pakistan-based chief of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the front for the banned LeT, has also been named as an accused in the FIR. (PTI)
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