Hizbul Mujahideen's chief
Syed Mohammed Yusuf Shah’s sons, the self-proclaimed Supreme Commander of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and Chairman of the United Jihad Council (UJC) were attached to two properties on Monday by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Shahid Yusuf and Syed Ahmed Shakeel’s immovable properties in Kashmir, Soibugh Tehsil, Distt. Budgam, and Nursing Garh, Mohalla Slam Bagh, have been connected under segment 33(1) of the UA( P) Act.
Property of Hizbul Mujahideen chief’s son ‘attached’ in Srinagar
Since their arrests in October 2017 and August 2018, Syed Ahmed Shakeel and Shahid Yusuf have both been incarcerated in the Tihar Jail in Delhi. On the 20th of April 2018 and the 20th of November 2018, respectively, they received chargesheets. The pair had been getting assets from abroad from the partners of their dad and overground laborers at HM.
Syed Salahudeen, who had escaped to Pakistan in 1993, was assigned as a singular psychological oppressor by India in October 2020. He continues to operate from Pakistan, where he is directing and instructing HUM cadres and activists of the UJC, also known as the Muttahida Jihad Council (MJC), a group of approximately 13 Pakistan-based terror organizations focused on Kashmir.
Other than affecting and operationalizing aggressor exercises in India, basically in the Kashmir valley, Syed Salahudeen has been raising assets and directing funds to India through shipping lanes, Hawala channels, and worldwide cash move channels for promoting the psychological oppressor exercises of HM units.
An investigation by the NIA in 2011
In November 2011, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) launched an investigation into a criminal conspiracy to raise, collect, and distribute funds for terrorist acts in Jammu and Kashmir among terror groups and their sympathizers. The Unique Cell of Delhi Police first enrolled a case in January 2011, and the case was consequently taken over by the NIA. Chargesheets as well as Beneficial Chargesheets were recorded against eight people blamed for the situation, remembering 2011 and 2018.
In an effort to eliminate the terrorist financing ecosystem that is operating in Jammu and Kashmir with the assistance of individuals based in Pakistan and other nations, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been enforcing its crackdown on the terror funding machinery. On Monday itself, the office had likewise held onto six shops in Awantipora for a situation connected with a 2018 assault on the CRPF Gathering Centre at Lethpora, J&K. Some land, including a house, had a place with the dad of one of the denounced in a similar case in September 2020.
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Pulwama Attack of 2021
In the case of the terrorist attack on the CRPF Convoy at Lethpora, Pulwama, in 2021, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had taken possession of the residential properties of the kin of two of the accused. In the case involving the murders of two brothers—Anil Parihar and Ajit Parihar—the NIA has also attached another residential property.
