The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday (April 24) attached a house and two kanals of land belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahudeen’s two sons in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam and Srinagar districts. A team of NIA officials first attached a house in the Ram Bagh area of here registered in the name of Syed Ahmed Shakeel, son of designated terrorist Salahudeen, news agency PTI reported.
“The house, registered in the revenue records in the name of Syed Ahmad Shakeel, was attached by the NIA on court orders under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act,” an NIA official was quoted as saying by PTI.
The team then went to Soibugh in Budgam district, the ancestral home of one of India’s most wanted terrorists, and attached a plot of agricultural land measuring two kanals (10,880 square feet), according o the report. The land is registered with Shahid Yusuf, Salahudeen’s other son.
The NIA has launched an investigation into terror funding machinery in an effort to dismantle the terrorist financing ecosystem that operates in Jammu and Kashmir with the assistance of individuals based in Pakistan and other countries.
The NIA sleuths put up notice boards announcing the attachments at both locations. In addition, the NIA seized six shops in the Pulwama district’s Awantipora area in connection with a 2018 attack on the CRPF Group Centre in Lethpora, J&K.
NIA ATTACHES PROPERTIES OF DESIGNATED TERRORIST SYED SALAHUDEEN’S SONS IN KASHMIR pic.twitter.com/qTlXc7UUda
— NIA India (@NIA_India) April 24, 2023
According to the statement, the duo had been receiving funds from abroad from their father’s associates and HM overground workers.
“The immovable properties of Shahid Yusuf and Syed Ahmed Shakeel, located in Kashmir – in Soibugh Tehsil, Distt. Budgam and Nursing Garh, Mohalla Ram Bagh, have been attached under section 33(1) of the UA(P) Act,” according to the NIA.
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Syed Salahudeen: Terrorist Who Instructs Hizbul Cadres From Pakistan
Shahid Yusuf and Syed Ahmed Shakeel have been detained in Delhi’s Tihar Jail since their arrests in October 2017 and August 2018, respectively. They were charged on April 20 and November 20 of this year, respectively. According to the report, the duo had been receiving funds from abroad from their father’s associates and HM overground workers.
In October 2020, India designated Salahudeen, who fled to Pakistan in 1993, as an individual terrorist. He continues to operate out of Pakistan, where he guides and instructs Hizbul cadres as well as UJC activists, also known as Muttahida Jihad Council (MJC), a conglomerate of around 13 Pakistan-based Kashmir-centric terror outfits.
Salahudeen has been raising funds and routing funds to India through hawala channels and international money transfer channels for furthering the terrorist activities of HM cadres, in addition to instigating and operationalizing militant activities in India, primarily in Kashmir valley.
In November 2011, the NIA launched an investigation into a criminal conspiracy to raise/collect/provide funds for terrorist acts and distribute funds among terror groups and their sympathisers in J&K for the purpose of committing terrorist acts. In January 2011, the Special Cell of the Delhi Police registered a case, which was later taken over by the NIA. Chargesheets and supplementary chargesheets were filed against eight defendants in the case between 2011 and 2018.