NIA questions separatists for 3rd day in a row

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) questioned for the third consecutive day on Monday several separatist leaders in Jammu and Kashmir over the alleged funding from Pakistan-based terrorist groups. An NIA official told IANS that the counter-terror agency questioned Tehreek-e-Hurriyat leader Ghazi Javed Baba and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front
(JKLF) leader Farooq Ahmed Dar, who is also known as Bitta Karate, regarding their involvement in raising, receiving funds through illegal hawala channel for stoking violence in Kashmir.
The two separatist leaders were earlier questioned on Sunday by the NIA team in Srinagar.
On Sunday, the probe agency collected details of 13 accused and charge-sheeted persons in cases pertaining to arson attacks on schools and public property as part of the alleged conspiracy to perpetuate violence in Kashmir.
The agency registered a preliminary inquiry against Hurriyat Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani and his close aide and Hurriyat provincial president Nayeem Khan, Farooq Ahmed Dar and Javed Baba.