Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 10: Arrest of Pakistan-based Kashmiri Hurriyat leader Altaf Ahmed Bhat in Rs 100-crore land scam has substantiated that separatist leadership is shamelessly indulged in minting money through illegal means at the cost of the younger generation of Kashmir.
Arrested by Pakistan’s Federal Investigating Agency (FIA) in embezzlement of Rs 100-crore by cheating Pakistani residents Hurriyat leader Altaf Ahmed Bhat was already charge-sheeted by the Jammu and Kashmir Police’s State Investigation Agency (SIA) in selling MBBS seats to Kashmiri students.
According to reports Altaf Ahmed Bhat, who is a Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) terrorist turned Hurriyat leader, was arrested by the Pakistani agencies in connection with this scam.
FIA filed against Altaf Ahmed Bhat and 15 others after they were found involved in embezzlement of over Rs 100 crore in an inquiry ordered by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in CBR Employees Cooperative Housing Society.
As per reports in Pakistan media, FIA has unearthed an alleged fraud worth Rs 100 crore in the Central Board of Revenue Employees Cooperative Housing Society (CBR ECHS) and registered a First Information Report (FIR) against the President and other office-bearers of the housing society.
Altaf Ahmed Bhat, a Kashmiri Hurriyat leader, settled in Pakistan, is president of the CBR Society and he was booked along with other accused.
Altaf Ahmed Bhat, a resident of Begh-e-Mehtab in Srinagar is the brother of Salvation Movement founder and former terrorist Mohammed Akbar Bhat alias Zafar Akbar Bhat, who was booked and detained by NIA in a terror funding case some years ago in Kashmir.
Both the brothers, Altaf and Zaffar, were chargesheeted by the Special Investigation Agency (SIA), in the Pakistan MBBS admissions scandal.
On December 30, 2021, the newly constituted SIA of Jammu and Kashmir Police had filed its first chargesheet against nine people, including the leader of Hurriyat Conference Zaffar Bhat for selling MBBS seats in Pakistan to students of Kashmir.
Money earned by selling MBBS seats was used to fund terror groups active in Kashmir Valley and other parts of the Union Territory. Bhat is chairman of the Salvation Movement, which is one of the constituents of the Hurriyat Conference.
The charge sheet under section 173 CrPc was filed in case FIR No. 05/2020 under section 13, 17, 18, 40, ULP Act, 420 IPC of police station CIK Srinagar before Special Judge designated Court at Srinagar under NIA Act. |
