The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested the Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin's son Shahid Yousuf in connection with terror funding case.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) chief Mohd Yusuf Shah alias Syed Salahuddin's son Shahid Yousuf in connection with the 2011 terror funding case.
Shahid Yousuf was summoned by the agency to New Delhi for questioning on October 16 in a case registered against Hizbul Mujahideen in Delhi .
"Syed Shahid Yousuf, over the years, has been receiving and collecting funds through International wire money transfer from Aijaz Ahmed Bhat alias Aijaz Magbool Bhat, member of HM, an absconder in the case," said NIA in a release.
Syed Shahid Yousuf, is a post graduate in Agriculture and since 2013 has been working in the Department of Agriculture, Jammu and Kashmir, as Village Agriculture Extension Assistant at his village Soibugh, Budgam.
The NIA has already filed two charge sheets against six accused persons in this case in 2011. Out of these six charge-sheeted accused, four including Ghulam Mohd Bhat, close associate of SAS Geelani, Chairman, Tehrik—e -Hurriyat [G], are in judicial custody and facing the trial in the Special Court NIA, New Delhi and other two namely Mohd Magbool Pandit and Aijaz Ahmed Bhat are still absconding.
Red Notice has already been issued against both the absconding accused persons.
The NIA in a statement also said that Syed Shahid Yousuf is one of the several Indian contacts of Aijaz Ahmed Bhat who have been in telephonic contact with him to receive the money transfer codes.
Syed Shahid Yousuf will be taken on Police custody remand for further interrogation and investigation.
The NIA has also registered two others cases related to terror funding -- one in November 2011 and another in May this year.
The agency has already filed a charge sheet against 10 people which included Syed Salahuddin in the second case of 2011.
In the recent case, the NIA has arrested 10 people including some close kin and aides of Geelani.
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