NEW DELHi: A Delhi court on Wednesday sent a suspected LeT member, arrested from Uttarakhand for allegedly raising funds for
terrorist activities, into a six-day custody of the NIA for interrogation to unearth his larger conspiracy.
Abdul Samad, 22, is believed to be a hawala operator. He was arrested in Haridwar yesterday and brought to Delhi.
Samad was produced before Additional Sessions Judge Tarun Saharawat, who sent him into the custody of the NIA.
The
National Investigating Agency told the court that the accused was required for sustained custodial interrogation and he will be confronted with other accused arrested earlier.
The agency told the court that Samad will to be taken to various locations across India in connection with its ongoing probe. He is the fifth accused arrested in the case.
The other four arrested in the case are Shaikh Abdul Naeem, a resident of Aurangabad in Maharastra, Dhannu Raja and Mahfooz Alam of Gopalganj in Bihar, and Touseef Ahmed Malik, a resident of Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir.
The agency said Samad was one of the leading hawala operators operating in Muzaffarnagar, Deoband and Roorkee.
"He was acting as a conduit of a LeT financier based in Saudi Arabia, through his cousin based there. In the month of November 2017, he collected Rs 3.5 lakh from hawala operators in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, for delivering it to co- accused Naeem," the agency told the court.
It said Naeem, an active Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) member, had visited and established bases in Bihar, Odisha, UP and Jammu and Kashmir on the directions of his handler Abdul, who is based in Pakistan.
The agency told the court that its investigation so far has revealed that Naeem, arrested from Lucknow in November last year, had visited south Kashmir and had photographed a few Army installations.
He had also disclosed during questioning that he had stayed in Pulwama, moved to various places with the help of Malik and even photographed a few Army and paramilitary camps.
