Malik shifted to Tihar
Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 9: The NIA has summoned former PDP legislator Ajaz Mir in connection with the weapon loot case at his Jawahar Nagar Government quarter residence last year.
Eight weapons including the personal pistol of Mir were taken away by his SPO Adil Bashir.
The SPO, who hailed from Mir’s hometown later joined militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen. Mir said he has been summoned on April 12 to Jammu headquarters of the agency.
The NIA took investigations of the weapon loot and he was questioned by the NIA several times for his alleged links with the militants.
Sources said that the SPO who looted weapons was recruited on his recommendations and was posted at his residence.
NIA had earlier raided his residence and seized several documents and laptop.
Meanwhile, JKLF chief Yasin Malik was today shifted to Delhi’s Tihar Jail after the NIA secured his production remand in connection with a case related to funding of separatists and terror groups in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
Malik, who was arrested last month and shifted to Kot Bhalwal Jail in Jammu, will be facing questions related to funding of his organisation from the National Investigation Agency.
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has reserved its judgment on a plea of the CBI for re-opening three-decade-old cases in which Malik was an accused.
The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief is facing charges of kidnapping and murder for being allegedly involved in abducting Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in 1989 and killing of four Indian Air Force personnel in the early part of 1990.
NIA had approached a special court in Jammu, seeking Malik’s remand for custodial interrogation in the terror-funding case.
The NIA probe seeks to identify the chain of players behind the financing of terrorist activities, pelting of stones on security forces, burning down of schools and damaging of Government establishments.
The case also names Hafiz Saeed, the Pakistan-based chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the front for the banned Lashker-e-Toiba, as an accused. It names organisations such as Hurriyat Conference factions led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the Hizbul Mujahideen and the Dukhtaran-e-Millat.
The JKLF was recently banned under theUnlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
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