Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday attached a house and two kanals of land belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahudin’s two sons in central Kashmir’s Budgam and Srinagar districts, officials said.
A team of NIA officials first attached a house in Ram Bagh area here registered in the name of Syed Ahmed Shakeel, son Salahudin, they said.
“The house, registered in the revenue records in the name of Syed Ahmad Shakeel, was attached by the NIA on court orders under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act,” an NIA official said.
Later, the team went to Soibugh in Budgam district, the ancestral place Salahudin, and attached a plot of agricultural land measuring two kanals (10,880 square feet), the officials said.
The land is registered in the name of Salahudin’s another son, Shahid Yusuf.
Notice boards announcing the attachments were installed at both the premises by the NIA sleuths.
Besides, the NIA also seized six shops in Awantipora area of Pulwama district in a case relating to a 2018 attack on CRPF Group Centre at Lethpora, J&K.
In a statement, the NIA said it attached two properties of the sons of Syed Mohammed Yusuf Shah alias Syed Salahudin, the self-styled Supreme Commander of Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen (HM) and Chairman of United Jihad Council (UJC).
“The immovable properties of Shahid Yusuf and Syed Ahmed Shakeel, located in Kashmir in Soibugh Tehsil, Distt. Budgam and Nursing Garh, Mohalla Ram Bagh, have been attached under section 33(1) of UA(P) Act,” the NIA said.
Both Shahid Yusuf and Syed Ahmed Shakeel are lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail since their arrests in October 2017 and August 2018. They were chargesheeted on April 20, 2018 and November 20, 2018, respectively. The duo are accused of having receiving funds from abroad from the associates of their father and overground workers of HM, it added.
NIA attaches properties of Salahudin’s sons
