Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday attached the residential house of separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah valued around 21.80 lakh in Srinagar under provisions of prevention of money laundering law in a case linked to funding of terror activities in Kashmir. The house is located in Botshah colony, Sanat Nagar, in Srinagar’s Barzulla police station area.

 

 

The money laundering case against Shah stems from a FIR filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in May 2017 against Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed and others under various sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).

 

 

Shabir Ahmad Shah was actively involved in the activities of fuelling unrest in Kashmir valley by way of stone pelting, processions, protests, bandhs, hartals and other subversive activities.

 

 

”He was involved in receiving funds from terrorist organisation Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) and other terrorists outfits based in Pakistan as well as from the Pakistani establishment through hawala and various other means and channels and these funds were then being used for fuelling and supporting terrorist activities in the Kashmir valley,” the ED said in a statement.