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| Hizb-ul-Mujahideen most active terror outfit in Kashmir | | ED, NIA, IT Deptt working in tandem | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 28: Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) has turned out to be the most active terror outfit in the Kashmir Valley. According to reports, HM has been "responsible for funding terrorist and secessionist activities in Jammu and Kashmir".
"Headed by Syed Salahuddin, its self-styled commander based out of Rawalpindi in Pakistan, it funds terrorism on Indian soil through monies organized by a trust called JKART (Jammu and Kashmir Affectees Relief Trust) in alleged connivance with the ISI and other Pakistan-based entities," the Enforcement Director has said in a statement.
It also has said that the "probe found that 'terror funds' were being sent to India through the hawala - illegal way of routing money by skirting banking channels, barter trade and human carriers". "The funds are illegally distributed to the next of kin of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, active and dead," it has revealed.
Earlier, the National Investigating Agency (NIA) had arrested Salahuddin's son Syed Shahid Yousuf in this case in 2017 and the Jammu and Kashmir Government had later suspended him from service as he was working in the state agriculture department.
In the mean time, multiple agencies like the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the National Investigative Agency and the Income Tax Department have been working in tandem to join the dots on the basis of preliminary investigations going on in the terror funding cases. While the ED has identified 25 assets "linked" to LeT Chief Hafiz Sayeed and his associates for attachment under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), a similar action will be conducted to freeze four properties of Jammu and Kashmir based separatist Shabir Shah.
Shabir Shah and many others from Kashmir have already been put behind bars in the Delhi's Tihar Jail.
During the on-going probe in the matter, these investigating agencies have identified individuals who have been providing money to all major terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Hizbul Mujahideen as also Hurriyat leaders, separatists and stone pelters in Jammu and Kashmir. The Central probe agency, under the Union Finance Ministry, has filed a total 13 FIRs under the PMLA to probe terror financing instances in the Kashmir Valley and it has attached assets worth over Rs 29.84 lakh in these cases. Similar action in five more cases is in progress.
As for the IT Department, during the last few weeks, it has carried out searches against some groups and individuals and is conducting their assessments under "anti-tax evasion and benami charges". |
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