Delhi conduit held in hawala ops
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 19: Jammu and Kashmir Police, Delhi Police and Central agencies today conducted a joint operation and arrested a major hawala operator in New Delhi through him terror was being funded in J&K via South Africa.
He has been identified as Mohammad Yaseen, 48, a resident of Turkman Gate in New Delhi, whose name had yesterday figured in hawala operations following arrest of Abdul Hameed Mir son of Gulam Joo of Mohalla Khwaza Poonch, at General Bus Stand Jammu with Rs 10 lakh worth hawala money which had been given to him by Yaseen for distribution among militants in twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri, besides the Kashmir valley.
Yaseen has reportedly revealed that hawala money was being routed to India through South Africa and collected in Surat and Mumbai.
The hawala operations were being carried out with active involvement of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Al Badr militant outfits, sources said.
Yaseen was running a garment business in Meena Bazaar and has the Delhi link to send this money to terror operatives in Jammu and Kashmir through couriers, they said.
They added that recently, Rs 24 lakh hawala money was sent from South Africa to support terror activities in India. Out of this, Yaseen transferred Rs 17 lakh through two couriers to a terror operative named Abdul Hameed Mir in Jammu and Kashmir.
The police, however, arrested Mir from Jammu Bus Stand last evening soon after he boarded off the bus from New Delhi and recovered Rs 10 lakh cash from him. The remaining Rs 7 lakh were recovered from his house, sources said.
Police have registered a case vide FIR No. 37/2022 under Sections 13/17/18/40 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act at Bus Stand Police Station in Jammu.
Mohammad Yaseen, as per the sources, is an important link for transporting funds from different parts of India to Jammu and Kashmir for further distribution among the militants. The arrests of Abdul Hameed Mir of Poonch and Mohammad Yaseen of New Delhi were based on information received from Central agencies and Jammu and Kashmir Police regarding a person engaged in funding of terror activities and operating from Meena Bazar, Delhi.
Accordingly, a raiding team was constituted and deployed at Meena Bazar, Delhi which apprehended the owner of the establishment.
The officials recovered one mobile phone also from the accused.
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