New Delhi: On Thursday, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) proceeded with searches in a terror funding case at nine areas in Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi. The agency additionally raided the properties associated with ex-Delhi Minority Commission chief Zafarul Islam Khan.
The raids were being conducted regarding a case relating to certain NGOs and Trusts raising funds in India and abroad for the sake of charitable activities and afterward utilizing those funds for completing secessionist and separatist activities in the union territory.
An NIA official conscious of the search said to IANS, the agency was conducting searches at nine areas on the premises of six NGOs and Trusts in Srinagar and Delhi.
Offices of Falah-e-Aam Trust, Charity Alliance, J&K Yateem Foundation, Human Welfare Foundation, Salvation Movement, and J&K Voice of Victims (JKVoV) were being searched by the anti-terror probe agency sleuths.
As per NIA sources, Charity Alliance and Human Welfare Foundation were situated in Delhi.
The office of Charity Alliance in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar was being searched by the NIA investigators, sources stated.
Charity Alliance is led by Ex-Delhi Minority Commission Zafarul Islam Khan, who is moreover the Editor of The Milli Gazette and ex-President, All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat and Managing Director, Pharos Media and Publishing Pvt. Ltd.
Zafarul Islam Khan has been in the news already this year, after he was booked by the Delhi Police on May 2 on the charge of sedition over a remark via social media
The NIA raided 11 areas in Srinagar and Bandipora in J&K and one area in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
The NIA has conducted investigations at the residential and office premises of Khurram Parvez, who is co-ordinator of J&K Coalition of Civil Society, his partners Parvez Ahmad Bukhari, Parvez Ahmad Matta and Bengaluru-situated partner Swati Sheshadri, Parveena Ahanger, director of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDPK) and offices of G.K. Trust and NGO Athrout.
The areas that were additionally under viewpoint included the offices of English daily Greater Kashmir. As per NIA authorities, its raids additionally centred around Greater Kashmir Trust, which was established after the 2014 floods and is affiliated to GK Communications, which runs Greater Kashmir and the Urdu daily Kashmir Uzma.
The NIA likewise raided the premises of journalist Parvez Bukhari. The NIA depicted him as “an associate” of Matta.
The activity comes in the wake of a new case filed by the NIA on October 8 under many sections of the Indian Penal Code and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act on the receipt of valid data that specific NGOs and Trusts are gathering funds locally and abroad through purported donations and business contributions, and so forth and are then using these funds for secessionist and terrorist activities in J&K.
