NIA grills Hurriyat chief Geelani's sons about bank accounts & family assets

Hurriyat chief Syed Ali Shah Geelani's sons, who were summoned by National Investigating Agency (NIA) for the second consecutive time, joined investigation on Thursday in the national capital. Geelani's sons — Nayeem and Naseem — joined probe after a week wherein they were asked to come up with all the details of their properties spread across Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and Delhi.

The brothers were grilled by the probing agency for almost a week about the their properties and that of their father. "This time they were asked about various bank account numbers and also their bank account," said a source. Along with them were few others who were also summoned by the agency. Senior officers, however, remained tight-lipped about the questioning of other people.

A week ago, NIA after carrying out raids, in J&K at 12 places, arrested businessman Zahoor Watali. Watali, after being questioned by the agency sleuths several times, was arrested. His business is reported to be spread across Kashmir, Delhi, Dubai and London. His relatives who have reportedly purchased properties across the north India are also under the scanner.

Two weeks ago the agency had summoned 30 people for questioning after they arrested seven people in the case. NIA is probing the terror funding case, wherein Pakistan-based chief of Jamaat-ul-Dawah, the front of another proscribed outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Hafiz Saeed, has been named as an accused.

They had arrested seven separatists including the son-in-law of Geelani.