*Involved in Rs 42 lakh worth hawala money seizure
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 31: In a major success, the State Investigating Agency (SIA) has arrested four persons including a couple from Punjab and Haryana who were involved in pumping hawala money in the Kashmir valley and had links across the border.
Arrests were made by the SIA teams under the supervision of DIG SIA Atul Goel.
Reliable sources told the Excelsior that after Rs 42 lakh hawala money seizure case of Nagrota, which took place on November 16 last year was handed over to the SIA, the teams of Investigation Agency were hunting the accused who had pumped the money for Kashmiri militants through the activists of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) outfit.
“After developing specific inputs and conducting raids at multiple places, the SIA finally zeroed-in on four accused in Punjab and Haryana and raided their hideouts last night. While three persons were arrested from Sonepat in Haryana, another was nabbed in Amritsar district of Punjab,” sources said.
All of them have been shifted here on transit remand for sustained interrogation to ascertain their links with the Kashmiri militants as well as across the border to completely bust hawala network.
Declining to disclose their identity as some of their associates are yet to be arrested, sources, however, said they include a couple.
According to sources, the SIA is trying to ascertain as to whether the arrested persons had earlier also pumped hawala money into Kashmir or it was their first attempt. Source of the money is too yet to be worked out.
Things will be clear in next couple of days, they added.
On November 16, 2021, Special Operations Group (SOG) Jammu and Nagrota police had arrested three Over Ground Workers (OGWs) of Jaish-e-Mohammed along with Rs 42 lakh worth hawala money which they were transporting from Punjab to Kashmir.
They were identified as Fayaz Ahmad Dar, 40, son of Abdul Rehman Dar, a resident of village Mishipura Yaripora in Kulgam district, Umar Farooq, 19, son of Farooq Ahmed Malik of Pulwama and Mauzam Parvaiz son of Parvez Ahmad Malik of Dillipura, Pulwama.
Police had then said that the consignment of cash was being shifted to South Kashmir from Punjab and was seized at a naka at Ban Toll Plaza in Nagrota on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.
They had intercepted Innova car No, DL-1ZB 8261 and nabbed all three associates of terror operatives and recovered Rs 42 lakh cash from their possession.
Later, Jammu and Kashmir Police had handed over the case to the State Investigating Agency keeping in view the involvement of accused from Jammu and Kashmir as well as two other States including Punjab and Haryana.
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