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SRINAGAR: State Investigation Agency (SIA) Kashmir on Wednesday conducted searches at five locations in South Kashmir (three in Anantnag and two in Kulgam) in connection with an ongoing investigation of a terror funding case of Police Station Anantnag registered on 19 November 2023 under sections 13,17,18,20,38 and 40 of the UA(P)A 120B, 121A, 121 of the IPC. The case was transferred to the SIA Kashmir in November 2023.
While talking to The New Indian, a senior police official of SIA said,“ Zaffar Hussain Bhat also known as Khursheed Kashmiri, son of Sunnallah, resident of Liver, Pahalgam, Sirigufwara, Anantnag, is a close associate of Ghulam Nabi Khan also known as Amir Khan. A Dy Chief of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), Khan and Bhat are both notorious, designated individual terrorists under the UAPA, declared Proclaimed Offenders and having Red Notices of Interpol issued against them in several terror funding cases of the NIA including the famous Jammu Kashmir Affectees Relief Trust (JKART) case”.
He said, “ Khursheed Kashmiri is also wanted in the Sanjay Sharma murder case of the SIA for his role in arranging and delivering the weapon of offense and also other arms and ammunition consignments at different locations in Jammu and Kashmir through his network of associates.”
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According to the SIA official, “Hizbul Mujahideen with the active connivance of Mohd Yusuf Shah aka Syed Salahudeen, Chief of HM and the United Jihad Council and the handlers of ‘Hizbul-Mujahideen’ (HM) and ‘Lashkar-E-Taiba’ (LeT), proscribed terrorist organizations in India, have worked out a detailed terror-funding plan of systematically and regularly financing of their active, arrested terrorists, families of killed terrorists and their associates, belonging to these proscribed terrorist organizations @ INR 15000 per member to sustain terrorism in J&K.”
“Zaffar Hussain Bhat aka Khursheed Kashmiri with his associates spread across Kashmir are raising, collecting, receiving, transporting, distributing and delivering the terror money to active and arrested terrorists of HM and their kith and kin to further terrorist, unlawful, subversive and secessionist activities in Jammu and Kashmir and other places of India”, the official said.
He added, “Zaffar Hussain Bhat uses VoIP-based encrypted messaging applications to communicate with his associates to plan, control, and execute their movements and also to share the lists of the beneficiaries of these terror funds.”
During the raids, crucial digital and documentary evidence including Cell Phones, Pen drives, SIM cards, data cards, bank documents, passports, etc were recovered and seized.
On 19 November 2023, a close associate of Khursheed Kashmiri namely Majid Aziz Lawey s/o Abdul Aziz Laway r/o Liddermatto was arrested with terror funds to the tune of INR 5 lakhs.
