Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 25: Enforcement Directorate, Srinagar, today ordered attachment of house of a senior separatist leader of hardline Hurriyat Conference (G) in a militancy funding case.
Joint Director of Enforcement Directorate, Srinagar, Himanshu Kumar Lal, today ordered attachment of house of Nabla Begum mother of Firodus Ahmad Shah at Abi Guzar Srinagar. Shah is a senior separatist leader who heads People’s Political Movement which is a constituent of Syed Ali Shah Geelani led faction of Hurriyat Conference.
The enforcement directorate was investigating a case against two separatist leaders, Yar Mohammad Khan and Firdous Ahmad Shah and others, for their alleged involvement in funding militancy in Jammu and Kashmir.
Sources said that the property worth Rs 1 lakh was attached by enforcement directorate. The attached property includes two storied house along with land measuring 3574 square feet and appurtenant in the name of Nabla Begum wife of Firdous Ahmad Shah at Abi Guzar, Srinagar, near Masjid Sharif.
However, Advocate Muhammad Shafi Reshi who is also the General Secretary of Democratic Political Movement said that the case was contested by him and Enforcement Directorate Court in New Delhi termed the charges as baseless and ordered the release of the property.
But a senior official of the directorate told Excelsior that the attachment of the property of Shah is a fresh order of the same case.
Earlier in 2012, Jammu and Kashmir Police attached property of a senior separatist leader of Hurriyat Conference (G), Ghulam Mohammad Khan Sopori. Police evicted Sopori and his family from their house at Channapora in Srinagar before sealing it.
In North Kashmir’s Sopore area, police also attached assets of Abdul Razaq Lone in Wagub village in 2012. His property, including houses and apple orchards, was attached by police.
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