Income Tax dept raids prominent organisation head in J&K and capital

The Income Tax Department on Wednesday said it has conducted a “sensitive search” that covered the head of a prominent organisation in connection with alleged terror financing and anti-national activities. Four premises in the Kashmir Valley and three in the national capital were searched, the department said, without naming the organisation or the persons involved.

Sources said one of the persons involved is Naeem Khan, who was suspended from Hurriyat in 2017. “The head of a prominent organisation allegedly indulging in anti-national activities along with his associates were covered in a sensitive search action by the Income Tax Department today,” it said in a statement. “The search action has yielded credible evidence of large scale undisclosed financial transactions carried out in the business of quarrying, hotels etc.”