ED summons Separatist leader Shabir Shah in terror finance case

March 09, 2015 22:01

Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate for questioning in connection with a decade-old case of terror financing through 'hawala channel'.

Shah, the Chairman of Democratic Freedom Party of Jammu and Kashmir, has been summoned here for March 24, official sources said here. The case relates to August 2005 of then Delhi police's special cell when they arrested Mohammed Aslam Wani, an alleged hawaladealer, who had claimed that he had passed on Rs 2.25 crore to Shah.

When contacted, Shah, who has denied these charges earlier, said that he was not aware of any summons. When pressed further, he said that he was in a meeting and he will talk tomorrow.

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