NEW DELHI: In a crackdown on an overground
terror network
in Kashmir, the ED on Tuesday arrested a
homemaker
among three persons from Srinagar and Anantnag for their alleged involvement in terror financing on directions of their Pakistani handlers.
They have been remanded to ED custody till February 20 for custodial interrogation.
The three arrested persons are homemaker Fatima Shah, Mohammad Akbar Bhat, both presently residing in Srinagar, and Sabzzar Ahmad Shaikh from Anantnag.
The three are already in jail after their arrest more than five years ago by the Jammu and Kashmir Police's State Investigation Agency (SIA) in a terror funding case.
Sources said, all the accused had not been filing any income tax as they had no declared income but large deposits from unexplained sources were found in their bank accounts, the probe revealed.
The enforcement agency suspects the accused also received money from Pakistan to finance terrorists operating in the Valley. According to ED, the accused had set up a charitable organisation, Al-Jabar Trust, as a front to collect funds for financing terrorists and organising protests, besides sponsoring stone pelters in the Valley.
The objective of the Al-Jabar Trust, as disclosed by the accused during interrogation, stated facilitating admissions for J&K students in MBBS and other courses in the colleges of Pakistan. Rs 5 crore worth of transactions were revealed in their personal accounts and accounts of the trust when none of them had any other source of income, a senior official said.
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