Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Aug 1: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today conducted searches across Kashmir valley in a case related to NGO terror funding.
The raids were conducted in Kashmir including the residence of noted human rights activist Advocate Parvez Imroz in NGO funding case registered in the year 2020.
The NIA teams with the assistance of police and CRPF raided multiple locations in Srinagar, Kupwara, Budgam, Pulwama and Shopian districts of the Valley.
In Srinagar, the NIA raided the residence of Zubair Siddiq Dar, son of Mohammad Sadiq Dar at Bonpora Batamaloo and later he was brought to PS Batamaloo for questioning.
In Budgam, the NIA raided the residence of Arshid Indrabi, son of Ghulam Qadir at Cooperative Colony Peerbagh. Click here to watch video
Another team searched the residence of Advocate Parvaiz Ahmad Sheikh (Parvaiz Imroz) , son of Ghulam Qadir at Kanta Bagh Kralpora.
The residence of Saleem Ahmad Malik at Kralpora Kupwara was also searched by the sleuths of NIA this morning.
Similarly, raids are being conducted at different parts of Kashmir valley.
The national probing agency said that involvement of some Valley-based NGOs, trusts and societies in funding of terror-related activities was being probed in this case.
“Some NGOs, both registered as well as unregistered, have been collecting funds domestically and abroad under the cover of doing charity and various welfare activities. But some of these organisations have developed links with proscribed terror organisations such as Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Hizbul Mujahideen,” the NIA said.
In the meantime, a spokesperson of the NIA in a statement said that extensive raids were conducted at seven locations in Srinagar, Budgam, Kupwara and Pulwama districts, at the premises of trusts and individuals associated with Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Societies (JKCCS), an NGO involved in raising funds for banned terrorist organisations.
The statement read that raids were also conducted at locations associated with the NGO programme coordinator Khurram Parvez and his associate Irfan Mehraj.
“Both Parvez and Mehraj were arrested by the NIA in March this year after investigations revealed their role in raising funds for the JKCCS from various charities based abroad, and utilising these funds to foment trouble and terror in Jammu and Kashmir. Subsequent investigations revealed that the NGO and the two arrested accused were actively involved in instigating and funding stone-pelting in an organised manner in the Valley. They had been working with various banned terrorist organisations operating in Jammu & Kashmir,” it read.
It read that several digital devices and incriminating documents related to financial transactions were seized in today’s searches in the case (RC-37/2020/NIA/DLI) registered suo moto by the NIA on 8th October 2020.
It added that the case relates to activities of certain NGOs, trusts, societies and organisations involved in collecting funds domestically and abroad, and transferring the same to separatist and terrorist organisations to sustain terrorist and secessionist activities in Kashmir.
“NIA had earlier conducted searches at 23 locations in this case in Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi and Bangalore,” it said.
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