NIA attaches a house and two canal lands belonging to the two sons of Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin
Post Date – 11:45 PM, Mon – 24 April 23
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Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) seized two suspects belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahudeen on Monday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam and Srinagar districts, officials said. A house and two canal lands for the son.
They said a team of NIA officers first attached a house in the Ram Bagh area with the name on the register as Syed Ahmed Shakeel, the son of designated terrorist Salahudeen.
“The house, registered in the income records in the name of Syed Ahmad Shakeel, was seized by the NIA under a court order under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act,” the NIA official said.
The team then traveled to Soibugh in the Budgam district, one of India’s top terrorists, and attached a two-canal (10,880-square-foot) farmland, officials said.
The land is registered in the name of another son of Salahudeen, Shahid Yusuf.
NIA detectives installed bulletin boards announcing the attachment at both locations.
In addition, the NIA also seized six shops in the Awantipora area of Pulwama district in connection with the attack on the CRPF group center in J&K Lethpora in 2018.
In a statement, the NIA said it attached two properties of the son of designated terrorist Syed Mohammed Yusuf Shah @ Syed Salahudeen, self-appointed Supreme Commander of the Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen (HM) and the United Jihad Council (UJC ) Chairman.
“The real estate of Shahid Yusuf and Syed Ahmed Shakeel located in Kashmir – Soibugh Tehsil in Distt. Budgam and Nursing Garh, Mohalla Ram Bagh, has been attached under Section 33(1) of the UA(P) Act,” the NIA said.
Shahid Yusuf and Syed Ahmed Shakeel have both been held in Delhi’s Tihar Jail since their arrests in October 2017 and August 2018. They were charged on April 20, 2018 and November 20, 2018, respectively. It added that the duo had been receiving funds from abroad from their father’s colleagues and HM’s ground workers.
Salahudeen, who fled to Pakistan in 1993, was designated a personal terrorist by India in October 2020. He continued his activities in Pakistan, where he mentored and mentored Hezbollah cadres and the Activists Council (MJC) of the UJC (also known as Muttahida Jihad), a Kashmir-centric group of about 13 Pakistan-based association of terrorist organizations.
Apart from instigating and radicalizing in India (mainly in the Kashmir valley), Salahuddin has been raising and funneling funds to India through hawala channels and international remittance channels to further the terror of the British PM cadre Activity.
The NIA opened an investigation in November 2011 into a criminal conspiracy to raise/collect/provide funds to carry out terrorist acts and to distribute funds among J&K’s terrorist organization and its supporters for the purpose of carrying out terrorist acts.
A case was initially registered by the Delhi Police Special Unit in January 2011 and the case was subsequently taken over by the National Intelligence Service. Charge sheets and supplementary charge sheets were filed against eight defendants in the case, including in 2011 and 2018.
The NIA has launched Operation Countering Terrorist Financing Mechanisms with the aim of dismantling the terrorist financing ecosystem operating in Jammu and Kashmir with the help of individuals in Pakistan and other countries.
