NIA court issues non-bailable warrants against Hafiz Saeed\, Syed Salahuddin

NIA court issues non-bailable warrants against Hafiz Saeed, Syed Salahuddin

While investigating, the NIA teams conducted searches at over 60 locations spread across Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana and Delhi and seized over 950 incriminating documents and over 600 electronic devices.

By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: November 2, 2018 9:11:05 pm
Non-bailable warrants against Hafiz Saeed, Syed Salahuddin On January 18, the NIA had filed chargesheet in the instant case against 12 accused people including Saeed and Salahuddin. (File photo)

A special NIA court Friday issued non-bailable warrants against Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin for their involvement in terror funding activities, PTI reported.

“The National Investigative Agency (NIA) approached the special NIA court for issuing non-bailable warrants against Hafiz Saeed and Syed Salahuddin for their active involvement in terror funding for creating unrest in the Kashmir valley and other parts of India,” NIA’s spokesperson was quoted as saying by PTI.

The investigative agency said that Saeed and Salahuddin mobilised Pakistan-trained terrorists and pushed them into India in connivance with secessionist and separatist leaders for waging war against India with the nefarious design of seceding Jammu and Kashmir from India.

On January 18, the NIA had filed the chargesheet in the instant case against 12 accused people including Saeed and Salahuddin. The 12,794-page chargesheet against Saeed and Salahuddin was filed for conspiring to wage war against the government (Section 121 of Indian Penal Code) by carrying out terrorist and secessionist activities in Jammu and Kashmir. The case was registered on May 30, 2017 and the first arrests were made on July 24 last year, according to the NIA.

While investigating, the NIA teams conducted searches at over 60 locations spread across Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana and Delhi and seized over 950 incriminating documents and over 600 electronic devices. It said that over 300 witnesses were examined during the probe.

Asserting that the terrorist attacks and orchestrating violence in Jammu and Kashmir was a “well-planned” criminal conspiracy, the NIA said, “The scrutiny and analysis of the documents and digital devices established that the accused Hurriyat leaders, the terrorists and the stone-pelters were carrying out terrorist attacks and orchestrating violence in Jammu and Kashmir as a part of their “well-planned” criminal conspiracy.

(With PTI inputs)