NIA conducts raids on house of Hizbul chief’s son in Budgam

Srinagar October 26 : The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the funding of secessionist activities in Kashmir on Thursday morning raided the house of Shahid Yusuf, son of Hizbul Mujahideen chief Salah-ud-din, in central Kashmir’s Budgam district.  “On Thursday morning a team of NIA conducted the search on the house of Salah-ud-din’s son, Shahid Yousuf, at Saibugh,” Budgam SSP Tejinder Singh told The Tribune.
Shahid, 42, of Soibugh village in Budgam district is in NIA custody after he was arrested by the agency in a six-year-old militant funding case on Tuesday. He has been accused by the NIA of “receiving and collecting funds through international wire money transfer” from a Saudi Arabia-based Kashmiri, Aijaz Maqbool Bhat.
Bhat, according to the NIA, is a member of the Hizb and is an absconder in the hawala funding case against the six members of the militant outfit. “Shahid has been arrested in a case pertaining to the terror financing of the Hizb, a proscribed terrorist organisation. He has been receiving and collecting funds through international wire money transfer,” said an NIA spokesperson, Inspector General Alok Mittal.