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NIA summons 30 more people in terror funding, polygraph test on arrested separatists

Sources said Naeem Geelani, son of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, was issued summons by NIA on Thursday.

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Two days after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested seven separatist leaders for allegedly funding terror, stone pelting, and unrest in Jammu and Kashmir, the agency has issues summons to more than 30 people, including separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani's two sons. These 30 people are identified as close associates of Hurriyat leaders. The agency also said that they will carry out lie detector test on the arrested.

Sources said Naeem Geelani, son of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, was issued summons by NIA on Thursday. Others who have been summoned include businessman, middleman and others. "I have not received anything officially. I have heard about it through media only," Naeem Geelani told DNA.

The agency has further decided to move the court for lie detection test on arrested leaders. "We will move court to get permission to conduct test on the arrested Hurriyat leaders," said a senior NIA officer. He added that they are also looking into the possible Dubai route used to get hawala money to fund Kashmir unrest.

The agency is also looking into the connection between the arrested separatists leaders and Hafiz Muhammad Saeed — co-founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the chief of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah.

The arrested separatist leaders were produced before the designates court in Delhi on Tuesday and the court remanded the accused to NIA custody for 10 days for custodial interrogation. Those arrested are identified as Farooq Ahmed Dar alias Bitta Karate, Nayeem Khan, Raja Mehrajuddin Kalwal, Peer Saifullah, Aftab Hilali Shah alias Shahid-ul-Islam, Aiyaz Akbar Khaney and Altaf Ahmed Shah alias Fantoosh Geelani, the son-in-law of hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani.

They were nabbed after NIA registered an FIR in May this year where the agency alleged that they received information the Central Government that Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of Jammat-ud-Dawah and the secessionist and separatist leaders, including the members and cadres of the Hurriyat Conference, have been acting in connivance with active militants of proscribed terrorist organisations Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Dukhtarane Millat, Lashkar-e-Toiba(LeT) and others for raising, receiving and collecting funds domestically and abroad through various illegal channels, including hawala, for funding separatist and terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir.

The agency, in the FIR, further alleged that through the funds so collected and as such have entered into a larger criminal conspiracy for causing disruption in the Kashmir valley by way of pelting stones on the security forces, systematically burning of schools, damage to public property and waging war against India.

The NIA officer said that they are probing all aspects of funding to separatist leaders and how they used these funds to fuel unrest in the valley.

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