Terror funding: NIA grills 6 Kashmiri leaders

As part of its crackdown on terror funding, the National Investigating Agency (NIA) on Monday questioned six Kashmiri leaders in Delhi and carried out raids for the second consecutive day at the residence Devender Singh Behal over his alleged links with Hurriyat chief Syed Ali Shah Geelani. However, Geelani's elder son Nayeem, who was asked to appear before the agency for questioning on Monday, failed to do so.

NIA is probing terror funding case, which names Pakistan-based chief of Jamaat-ul-Dawah, the front of another proscribed outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Hafiz Saeed, as an accused.

The younger son of Geelani, Naseem Geelani, has also been summoned on Wednesday but he stated that he is yet to receive any communication from the NIA.

The agency had in total summoned 30 people after they had arrested seven separatists including son-in-law of Geelani and top aide of moderate leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in the terror and stone-pelting funding cases.

Those arrested included Altaf Ahmed Shah alias Fantoosh, son-in-law of Geelani; Peer Saifullah, political secretary of Geelani; Ayaz Akbar, spokesman of Hurriyat Conference; Raja Mehraj-ud-din Kalwal, Srinagar district president of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat; and Shahid-ul-Islam, media secretary of Mirwaiz.

Others leaders arrested include National Front chairman and suspended provincial president of hard-line Hurriyat Nayeem Ahmad Khan and former militant commander and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (R) leader Farooq Ahmad Dar alias Bitta Karate.