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The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday questioned six people in New Delhi, including the eldest son of Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, in connection with a 2011 terror funding case, officials said.
Shakeel Yusuf, who works as a medical assistant at Srinagar's Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, appeared before the agency along with five others suspected to have received funds from Salahuddin, they said.
The NIA wanted to question him over allegations that he used to receive funds sent by his father through a US-based international wire transfer company, officials said.
Yusuf may be quizzed again, officials said.
The case, registered by the NIA in April 2011, relates to the transfer of money from Pakistan to Jammu and Kashmir through hawala channels via Delhi, which the agency believed was used in funding terrorism and secessionist activities.
The NIA has so far filed two charge sheets against six people including GM Bhat – a close aide of pro-Pakistan separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mohammed Siddiq Ganai, Ghulam Jeelani Liloo and Farooq Ahmed Dagga. All four are in judicial custody.
Two others -- Mohammed Maqbool Pandit and Bhat -- were also charge sheeted by the NIA but are absconding. An Interpol Red Corner notice has been issued against them.
Besides heading terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen, he is the chairman of the United Jehad Council (UJC), a conglomerate of terrorist outfits operating in the Kashmir Valley.
The agency had also arrested another son of the Hizbul chief – Shahid, in connection with the case in October last year. He is at present in judicial custody.
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