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| Is Shabir Shah going to shun separatism, join mainstream politics? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 24: The decision of the Minister of Home Affairs to review the ban imposed on the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (JKDEP) fuelled rumours that prominent jailed separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah is going to shun separatism to join mainstream politics before the Lok Sabha election.
The JKDEP-one of the constituent of the All Party Hurriyat Conference was founded by Shabir Ahmed Shah who was arrested on July 25, 2017, in the case in which the Special Cell of Delhi Police had earlier arrested his close aide Aslam Wani.
He was arrested in connection with over a decade-old money laundering case against him for alleged terror financing.
A Delhi court in 2017 issued a non-bailable warrant against the separatist leader. The agency had issued several summons to Shah over the last few years in pursuance of the August 2005 case, wherein the Delhi Police's Special Cell had arrested Mohammed Aslam Wani (35), an alleged hawala dealer, who had claimed that he passed on Rs 2.25 crore to Shah.
The ED had registered a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act against Shah and Wani who was arrested allegedly with Rs 63 lakh, which he had received through "hawala" channels from the Middle East, in 2005.
The Enforcement Directorate has also made Shabir Shah's wife Dr. Bilquis Shah an accused in the same case.
The agency named her as an accused in its supplementary charge sheet filed in the case in 2020.
In the chargesheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate in 2020, the probe agency said that Bilquis Shah, along with Shabir Shah had received Rs 2.08 crore from Aslam Wani.
It said the claim was based on Wani's disclosure in the case, where he admitted that “all amounts were in cash and were handed over to Shabir Ahmad Shah and on three occasions to Dr. Bilquies Shah”.
The ED alleged that she received the said amount knowing fully well that her husband had no known sources of income and that this money could not have been obtained through licit means.
However, on October 29, 2021, she was granted bail in the same case. The court granted her relief on a bail bond of Rs 50,000 with two sureties each in the same amount.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday notified the appointment of Delhi High Court judge Justice Sachin Datta as the presiding officer of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) Tribunal to review the ban imposed on Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (JKDFP).
In accordance with the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), the Central Government had officially declared the JKDFP as an unlawful association on October 5 through a notification published in the Gazette of India.
The UAPA provides that no such ban shall come into effect unless the same is confirmed by the UAPA Tribunal by an order made under Section 4 of the Act.
In conformity with the Act, the government has now notified the tribunal.
Justice Datta had served as the Central government’s standing counsel in the Delhi High Court for several years, where he represented the Central government in a wide range of litigation.
He also appeared for the Central Government in the Supreme Court and before various Tribunals established under the UAPA before being designated as a Senior Advocate by the Delhi High Court in August 2014. |
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