NIA Attaches Kashmiri Businessman Watali’s Properties In Militant Funding Case

Srinagar|June, 12: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday attached properties of businessman Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district in connection with a militant funding case, officials said.
The officia said a team of the NIA attached the immovable properties in the name of Watali at villages Baghatpora and Kachwari in Handwara area of the north Kashmir district. The properties include land in the name of Watali, an accused in the militant funding case, the officials said. They said the properties were attached following an order by the Special NIA Court in New Delhi in May. Watali was arrested by NIA in 2017 under various sections of the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
A trial court had in May last year framed charges against Watali and others in a case related to alleged militancy and secessionist activities in Jammu and Kashmir in 2017. Watali was moved out of jail in February last year and placed under house arrest on medical grounds.