Terror funding case: NIA finds evidence against Syed Ali Shah Geelani, action likely soon
The NIA has found evidence against separatist leader SAS Geelani for instigating people against the security forces in the Kashmir Valley last year.
The NIA sources have said that the agency has found evidence against separatist Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani for instigating general public in the Kashmir Valley.
The NIA sources said that the incriminating evidence was found in the documents seized from the residence of Geelani's son-in-law Altaf Fantoosh. The NIA had conducted raid at Fantoosh's residence on June 3.
This raid was part of the series of raids conducted by the NIA in the terror funding case after an India Today expose in which a number of separatist leaders admitted on camera that they received money from across the border to foment trouble in the Valley.
Among the documents seized by the NIA is a protest calendar signed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who planned to instigate the people in the Valley to taken on the security forces and government establishment.
- August 4, 2016: Calendar talks about the conspiracy to instigate people against the government and stage protest against the Army and other security forces.
- August 6, 2016: People were asked to gather at the Lal Chowk in Srinagar and other places and stage protest.
- August 8, 2016: Geelani appealed his supporters to block all the roads leading to Srinagar, to stop the government officials from joining their duties and build pressure on working people not to attend their offices.
- August 9, 2016: Geelani asked women to stage protest from dawn to dust and play Islamic and pro-independence songs at various places and mosques.
- August 10, 2016: Geelani planned to send letters to all the security forces asking them to go away from the Valley.
- August 11, 2016: Geelani asked all the mainstream politicians and village heads (sarpanch) to resign from their posts and past copies of their resignation letter at public places.
- August 12, 2016: Geelani asked all the Imams to build public opinion in mosques in favour of independence of Kashmir and paste pro-independence posters on the mosque walls.
- August 13, 2016: Geealni asked supporters to join the protests bearing black flags.SAS Geelani signed protest calendar.
- August 14, 2016: Geelani gave a call to celebrate the Pakistan Day with special namaz and to play pro-independence song the whole day.
- August 15, 2016: Geelani asked his supporters to observe black day in Jammu and Kashmir. He asked his men to stage protest waiving black flags outside government buildings and to hoist the same above their homes, shops and at public squares.
- August 16, 2016: Geelani gave a call to include women in the protests and play pro-independence songs in mosques.
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