'Receiving Funds From Hizbul': ED Attaches J&K Separatist Shabir Shah's Srinagar House In Terror Funding Case

The money laundering case stems from an FIR filed by the NIA in May 2017 against Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed and others under various sections of the UAPA.

File Photo: Kashmiri separatist Shabir Shah addressed a press conference in Srinagar on May 3, 2012, to caution India and Pakistan against seeking to freeze a Kashmir issue in order to improve their trade and cultural relations.

Source : AFP

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday informed that it has attached Jammu and Kashmir separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah's Srinagar house as part of a money laundering probe linked to a case of fuelling terrorist activities in the union territory.

The house, worth Rs 21.80 lakh, is located in Botshah colony, Sanat Nagar, in Srinagar's Barzulla police station area, the ED mentioned in a tweet.

The money laundering case against Shah stems from an FIR filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in May 2017 against Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed and others under various sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).

"Shabir Ahmad Shah was actively involved in the activities of fuelling unrest in Kashmir valley by way of stone pelting, processions, protests, bandhs, hartals and other subversive activities," the ED stated.

ED has provisionally attached an immovable property situated at Barzulla, Srinagar of value of ₹ 21.80 lakhs in the name of Shabir Ahmad Shah S/o Gulam Mohd. Shah under PMLA. Inv. revealed that Shabir Shah was actively involved in activities of fuelling unrest in Kashmir Valley.

— ED (@dir_ed) November 4, 2022

"He was involved in receiving funds from terrorist organisation Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) and other terrorists outfits based in Pakistan as well as from the Pakistani establishment through hawala and various other means and channels and these funds were then being used for fuelling and supporting militant activities in the Kashmir valley," the ED statement mentioned, as reported by news agency PTI.

In 1998, Shah formed the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (JKDFP) which advocates "Self determination" of Kashmiri people.

He has been arrested several times and was last put under house arrest in 2015.