Sringara Apr 11 :- A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court is all set to frame formal charges against Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik and others on April 18 in connection with a terror funding case.
Special NIA Judge Praveen Singh on Monday deferred the framing of formal charges against the accused persons in this case. The hearing has been deferred as two accused persons from Jail No. 4 could not be produced before the court.
All other accused persons were produced before the court including Yasin Malik.
The court had ordered framing of charges against Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed, Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin and others for hatching criminal conspiracy, waging war against the country and other unlawful activities.
Kashmiri separatist leaders, including Yasin Malik, Shabbir Shah, Masarat Alam, former MLA Rashid Engineer, businessman Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali, Bitta Karate, Aftab Ahmad Shah, Avatar Ahmad Shah, Naeem Khan, Bashir Ahmed Bhat, alias Peer Saifullah and several others have also been framed under charges for criminal conspiracy, waging war against the country and other unlawful activities.
In the order dated March 16, the NIA special Judge Praveen Singh had said: “The above analysis reflects that the statements of witnesses and documentary evidence have connected almost all the accused with each other and to a common object of secession, to the commonality of means they were to use, their close association to terrorist/terrorist organisations under the guiding hand and funding of Pakistani establishment.”
Notably, the court has discharged three, namely Kamran Yusuf, Javed Ahmad Bhatt and Syedah Aasiya Firdous Andrabi.
NIA also submitted that the investigation has revealed that the secessionists were mobilizing funds from all possible sources to fuel unrest and support the on-going secessionist and militant activities in Jammu & Kashmir. The secessionists were getting funds from Pakistan, funds from Pakistan based militant organizations and from local donations.
