Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 28: The Jammu and Kashmir Police today arrested three separatist leaders shortly after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided their houses early this morning, official sources said.
All three leaders- Mohammad Altaf Shah, son-in-low of hardline Hurriyat Conference (HC) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani; Aiyaz Akbar, Spokesman of the amalagam and Mehrajuddin Kalwal, another senior leader, have to face questioning by the NIA at New Delhi tomorrow, they said.
The NIA raided the houses of these leaders early this morning, before police arrested them and lodged them in police station Rajbagh.
They will be flown to New Delhi to face the questioning of NIA, in connection with terror funding from Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), the sources added.
They said the separatist leaders had been summoned to Delhi to face the NIA questioning on June 29.
The house of Aiyaz Akbar at Malroo, Shalteang in Srinagar outskirts was raided early this month, when NIA also raided the houses of several other separatist leaders, including media advisor of chairman of moderate HC Advocate Shahidul Islam. Islam was later questioned by the Agency in New Delhi.
Shah was also summoned to Delhi, where he was questioned for about a week, before allowing him to return to Srinagar.
The raids followed alleged admission by National Front (NF) chairman Nayeem Ahmad Khan in a television sting operation that separatists are receiving money from Pakistan, PoK and other countries for terror and stone pelting funding in the valley.
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