Anantnag: Syed Shahid Yousuf, son of Chairman United Jihad Council (UJC) Syed Salahuddin, was Wednesday sent to judicial custody by a Delhi court in a 2011 funding case.
District Judge Poonam A Bamba sent the accused to custody till November 27 after he was produced before the court on expiry of his 7-day custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The NIA had earlier alleged that the accused had links with Hizb-ul-Mujahedin. The NIA said the case was registered on the basis of information regarding funds from Pakistan being sent to Jammu and Kashmir through hawala channels via Delhi to fund militancy.
The NIA had in 2011 arrested accused persons Ghulam Mohd Bhat and others with Rs 21.20 lakh, it said, adding that Yousuf was “one of the several Indian contacts of Bhat” who had been in telephonic contact with him for receiving money transfer codes.
It was submitted by the agency that Yousufs involvement was found in collecting funds from a militant outfit in Saudi Arabia as well as from other accused on directions of his father Mohd Yousuf Shah alias Syed Salahuddin, the supreme commander of the Hizb-Ul-Mujahiddin.
The NIA has claimed that so far Yousuf has received a total of nearly Rs 4.5 lakh through eight international wire transfers. The agency has so far filed two charge sheets against six people including Bhat, a close aide of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mohammed Siddiq Ganai, Ghulam Jeelani Liloo and Farooq Ahmed Dagga.
The NIA had also registered two other cases related to funding — one in November 2011 and the other in May this year. It had filed a charge sheet against 10 people including Salahuddin in the April 2011 case. In the recent case, the NIA arrested 10 people including some close relatives and aides of Geelani.
