NIA attaches house of prominent Hurriyat leader Mohammad Akbar Khanday in Srinagar

Srinagar, June 13: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday attached two properties of a separatist leader named Mohammad Akbar Khanday alias Ayaz Akbar in Maloora Shalteng region of Srinagar in 'terror funding' case.

 

 

"This is to inform all members of the public that the immovable property i.e. land measuring 1 Kanal and 10 Marlas under Survey No. 31 at Mauza Shalteng, Tehsil Srinagar (J&K), in the name of Mohammad Akbar Khanday...has been attached under Court Orders dated 31 May, 2023, in RC-10/2017 /NIA/DLI, by the Special NIA Court, Patiala House Courts, New Delhi," the notice posted by the NIA read.

 

 

 

Hurriyat leader Ayaz Akbar is presently under detention in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail. He was arrested in July 2017 by the NIA over the alleged militant funding case.

 

The attachment of Ayaz's house comes a day after the NIA attached 17 properties belonging to "financier of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir" Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali in the Handwara area of Kupwara district in north Kashmir in the Hurriyat terror funding case in which Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) commander Yasin Malik is currently undergoing life imprisonment.

 

 

Watali, the NIA said, had been sending the funds raised by him from various sources to the Hurriyat leaders “to promote the secessionism of J-K from the Union of India”.

 

"These outfits were spreading terror and perpetrating violence in the valley by promoting and conducting attacks on civilians and security forces," said the NIA. These banned terrorist groups were using the All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC), which was formed in 1993, as a front for carrying out and supporting secessionist activities in Kashmir.