The State Investigation Agency (SIA) of Jammu and Kashmir has submitted a chargesheet against five suspects in a terror-funding case that was registered last year, bringing to light a connection between the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror group and gangsters based in Punjab, reports PTI.
Following the recovery of Rs 43 lakh from a car headed for Kashmir, the case was filed in November of last year.
A chargesheet was presented to a special NIA court in Jammu on Tuesday against the accused persons, which included a commander of the JeM based in Pakistan and three gangsters from Punjab, under various provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), the Arms Act, and the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
In the three months after it took over the investigation in January, the SIA has filed two chargesheets in the terror-funding case.
The JeM commander Ashiq Nengroo alias Ashiq Molvi, a resident of Hanjan Bala village in Rajpora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district and currently conducting operations from the other side of the border, is among those charged, the official said.
The other four accused, according to him, are Muzammil Ahmad Malik of Pulwama, Ravi Kumar alias Nona, Jaideep Dhawan alias Deep, and Amarbir singh alias Gopi Mahal, all of whom are Punjab residents.
The case relates to the Jammu police’s seizure of Rs 43 lakh from three people travelling in a taxi toward Kashmir on November 16, 2021, at the Sidhra bridge.
Two accused, Mouzzam Parvez and Umar Farooq, both citizens of Pulwama’s Dalipora village, who had collected the money from Amritsar in Punjab, were named in the first chargesheet, which was submitted on May 14.
“The investigation revealed that Parvez and Farooq had conspired with Malik and Nengroo and facilitated the movement of terror funds, which were to be further distributed to JeM terrorists operating in the valley for launching terror attacks in India,” the official said, according to PTI.
He said that Malik, who had arranged Parvez and Farooq’s transportation in his truck, and the Punjab-based gangsters and narcotics smugglers who had provided the terror funding amount had made it possible for the funding of terrorism.
“According to instructions from a Pakistan-based designated terrorist (Nengroo), Parvez and Farooq had received the illegal sum of Rs 15 lakh for funding terrorism from Amarbir Singh in Amritsar at a planned spot on the Amritsar highway. Singh received help from his close friends Jaideep Dhawan and Ravi Kumar. Additionally, weapons and ammunition were found in Kumar’s Amritsar home “said the official.
He said that Baljinder Singh, aka Billa Mandiala, a weapons and narcotics smuggler, is connected to Punjab-based gangster Amarbir Singh. He is mentioned in around 23 FIRs that deal with murder and extortion.
(With Inputs from PTI)
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