NIA arrests Hizb chief Salahuddin's son in terror funding case

ANI  |  New Delhi [India] 

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday arrested Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin's son Syed Shahid Yusuf in a 2011 terror-funding case.

Yusuf, a J&K employee, was found to have been receiving and collecting funds through international wire money transfer from Saudi Arabia-based Hizbul Mujahideen member Aijaz Ahmed Bhat.

Bhat is wanted in for funding terror activities in the Kashmir Valley.

Yusuf will now be produced before the NIA Special in and will be further interrogated by the investigating agencies.

The NIA already filed two charge-sheets against six other accused in this case in 2011.

Out of these accused, two are in custody and others including Salahuddin are absconding and residing in and PoK.

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First Published: Tue, October 24 2017. 13:42 IST