Terror funding in Kashmir: NIA raids in multiple locations

SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI: In a pre-dawn swoop, the National Investigation Agency ( NIA) on Saturday raided 23 locations in Kashmir, Haryana and the national capital in connection with a case of alleged funding received by separatist groups for carrying out subversive activities in the Valley.

After registering an FIR earlier this week, various NIA teams, which had been camping in the Valley for a few days, moved under heavy escort from their camp office located at Humhama, on the outskirts of the Srinagar city.

Among those raided were Altaf Fantoosh, the son-in-law of hardline leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, businessman Zahoor Watali, Shahid-ul-Islam, leader of Awami Action Committee led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, and some secondrung separatist leaders belonging to both factions of the Hurriyat Conference and the JKLF.