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ED issues fresh summons to Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued fresh summons to Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah, at present in Delhi, for questioning in connection with a decade-old case of terror financing through hawala channel. The summons have been sent to Shah, the Chairman of Democratic Freedom Party of Jammu and Kashmir, at the south Delhi guest house, where he has been kept after Delhi Police detained him yesterday. Sources said, Shah reached Delhi to meet Pakistani leadership in prelude to the now cancelled NSA-level talks. Shah has been summoned at the Delhi zonal office of the agency this week.<br/><br/>This is the third attempt by the agency to serve summons on Shah in a August 2005 case where Delhi Police's Special Cell arrested Mohammed Aslam Wani, an alleged hawala dealer, who had claimed that he had passed on Rs 2.25 crore to Shah. Wani, who is at present out on a bail, has also been summoned by the ED, which registered a case under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against him and Shah.<br/><br/>Wani was arrested allegedly with Rs 63 lakh received through 'hawala' channels from the Middle East and a large amount of ammunition on August 26, 2005.<br/><br/>

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