India Today Impact: NIA questions Syed Ali Shah Geelani's sons Naeem, Naseem over terror funding
After an India Today special report exposed Pakistan's role in fomenting unrest in Kashmir in connivance with Hurriyat leaders, the NIA has already made several arrests.
In Short
- Geelani brothers arrived at the NIA headquarters at around 11 am
- They had evading the counter-terror agency's earlier summons
- Naeem is a doctor, and Naseem works at a university
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today questioned hardline Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani's sons, Naeem and Naseem, as part of its probe into a money trail to expose how Pakistan sent cash to separatists for stoking unrest in the Kashmir Valley.
This comes weeks after India Today broadcast a special report, 'Operation Villains of Valley,' that exposed Pakistan's role in fomenting unrest in Kashmir in connivance with Hurriyat leaders.
It showed how Pakistan's state and non-state actors, including 26/11 attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed, were choreographing anarchy in the Valley through their agents.
The NIA has already arrested several Hurriyat leaders, including Naeem Khan, Bitta Karate, and Altaf Ahmad Shah, Geelani's son-in-law. They've been booked on charges of criminal conspiracy and waging war against India.
EVASION
NIA officials said the Geelani brothers arrived at the NIA headquarters at around 11 am after evading the counter-terror agency's earlier summons.
The NIA had issued summons to Naeem, a doctor who was once based in Pakistan, on July 27 and August 1. He failed to appear because he was hospitalised in Srinagar.
Geelani's younger son Naseem, who works at an agricultural university in Srinagar, was summoned to appear before NIA on August 2.
He also did not come saying the notice should be served through Vice Chancellor of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Agriculture Science so that he was permitted to take leave.
(Inputs from IANS)
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