The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested Pakistan’s Muzaffarabad-based Hizbul Mujahideen supreme commander Syed Salahuddin’s son, Syed Shakeel Ahmed, during a raid in Srinagar.
Shakeel, who used to work as a laboratory technician in Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura, has been under the NIA scanner for his alleged involvement in a 2011 terror funding case. He was questioned by the NIA in March 2018 in the case related to the transfer of money from Pakistan to Jammu and Kashmir through hawala channels via Delhi.
This is the second major arrest of a family member of the Hizbul chief. In 2017, the NIA arrested Syed Shahid Yousuf, another son of Syed Salahuddin. He was working with the Jammu and Kashmir agricultural department. Yousuf was placed under suspension by the department following the arrest.
NIA sources said both arrests have been made in connection with the terror funding scam being investigated by the agency.
