Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday raided the residence of a prominent businessman in Srinagar outskirts in connection with alleged funding.
Official said that security forces and state police cordoned off Lal Bazar area in the city outskirts early on Tuesday morning before a team of NIA raided the residence of businessman, Fayaz Ahmad Mir.
Mir is latest among the list of persons whose residences were raided by the NIA in connection with alleged funding in Kashmir.
Earlier this month, the investigation agency raided the residence of businessman Ajaz Ahmad Hakak at Nowhatta in downtown Srinagar on October 2.
It was alleged that “separatists are receiving money through hawala and other sources for funding militancy and stone pelting.”
Those arrested so far included spokespersons of both the factions of the Hurriyat Conference Aiyaz Akbar and Advocate Shahidul Islam and two sons of United Jehad Council (UJC) chief Mohammad Yousuf Shah alias Syed Salahuddin.
However, the Delhi High Court on September 18, 2018 granted bail to Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Watali, who was arrested by the NIA for his alleged role in an alleged funding case.
Watali was the third accused in an alleged funding case to be granted bail. Photojournalist Kamran Yousuf and a youth Javed Ahmad Bhat , a resident of Kulgam, both accused of stone pelting, were granted bail by the court earlier this year.
