The National Investigation Agency (NIA) yesterday conducted raids at 16 places in Delhi and Srinagar in connection with a terror funding case.
“The NIA teams searched 11 locations in Srinagar and five in Delhi. They are related to the Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case. The searches are still going on,” an NIA official in Delhi said.
In Srinagar, the raids were being carried out at the offices and residences of Bashir Ahmad Kaloo, Showkat Ahmad Kaloo, Abdul Rashid Bhat, Firdous Iqbal Wani, Sajad Syed Khan and Imran Causa.
In Delhi, the searches were being conducted in the Shadipur depot and Khari Baoli area at the residences and office premises of Ganga Bishan Gupta, Firoz Akhtar Siddiqui and Sunil Kumar Jain, the officer said.
The NIA in July arrested several separatist leaders in connection with the probe into the terror funding allegedly by Pakistan-based groups to stoke unrest in the Kashmir Valley.
In Srinagar, senior Kashmiri separatist leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Yasin Malik said the NIA raids would not deter them and they would court arrest at the headquarters of the anti-terror agency on September 9.