How Indian agencies are hitting anti national Kashmir separatists in a sustained manner
New Delhi, Mar 23: The Indian agencies have taken some stringent action against the separatists of Kashmir in the past couple of weeks.
Be it attaching the properties of the separatists or banning the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, the action has been constant.
The ED said that it was attaching the properties of the Kashmir separatists. The action is being taken following charges of money laundering. The move came just days after the National Investigation Agency carried out searches at premises of separatists, including Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, in connection with a case related to funding to terror and separatists groups in Jammu and Kashmir.
The ED has identified properties that are based in Kashmir and New Delhi. In Delhi, the properties identified are at Vasant Kunj, ED sources tell OneIndia. NIA sources say that during the raids, they had seized incriminating material.
JKLF was instrumental in killing of Kashmiri Pandits, Govt says while imposing ban
JeI
banned:
Earlier
this
month,
the
Centre
banned
the
Jamaat-e-Islami
undertaker
the
Unlawful
Activities
(Prevention)
Act
for
anti
national
activities.
The
Jamaat-e-Islami
had
come
under
the
radar
in
Jammu
and
Kashmir
and
nearly
150
of
its
members,
including
its
president
and
spokesperson
were
taken
into
police
custody
recently
in
a
major
crackdown.
This was the first major crackdown on the Jamaat, which has been termed as the parent political party of the Hizbul Mujahideen. The crackdown on the outfit is a significant one and it may be recalled that the National Investigation Agency had recently learnt that there was a major plot being hatched to carry out a wave of terror attacks in India ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
The plot was unearthed after the NIA busted an Islamic State inspired module that went by the name Harkat-ul-Harb e Islam. The NIA learnt that two calls made by the alleged kingpin of the module were to Pakistan and Bangladesh. The NIA said that the module was being headed by Mufti Suhail, a resident of Amroha in Uttar Pradesh.
Geelani
penalised:
In
another
development,
the
Enforcement
Directorate
penalised
S
A
S
Geelani
after
he
was
found
in
possession
of
foreign
exchange.
A
penalty
of
Rs
14.40
lakh
was
levied
on
him
and
order
of
confiscation
to
the
tune
of
nearly
6.8
lakh
was
issued.
He is being investigated by the ED under the provisions of FEMA or Foreign Exchange Management Act.
JKLF
banned:
The
Yasin
Malik-led
Jammu
Kashmir
Liberation
Front
(JKLF)
was
banned
on
Friday
for
"promoting"
secession
of
the
militancy-hit
state
from
the
Union
of
India,
officials
said
here.
Banning the outfit under various provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act after a high-level meeting on security chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, officials said the Government of India (GoI) is of the opinion that the JKLF is "in close touch with militant outfits" and is supporting extremism and militancy in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere.
They said the outfit claims "secession of a part of the Indian territory from the union and supports terrorist and separatist groups fighting for this purpose".
Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba said the JKLF has been banned as the government has a "policy of zero tolerance against terrorism".
"The JKLF has been at the forefront of separatist activities in J&K and was involved in the killings of Kashmiri Pandits in 1989 leading to their exodus from the valley," he said.
The home secretary said the government is committed to relentlessly pursuing a policy of curbing the activities of secessionist groups which are threat to the country.
The other reason for banning the outfit was that the cadres of the JKLF were indulging in activities intended to disrupt the territorial integrity of India, the officials said.
Malik is at present lodged in Kot Balwal jail in Jammu, and is likely to face trial in the three-decade-old case of kidnapping of Rubaya Sayeed, the daughter of then Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, and gunning down of four IAF personnel in Srinagar.