September 23, 2017 8:40 PM

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Shabir Shah in touch with Hafiz Saeed, claims ED charge sheet

The Enforcement Directorate today accused Kashmiri separatist Shabir Shah of having been in touch with Pakistan-based terrorist Hafiz Saeed. E D filed a charge sheet filed against him in connection with a 2005 money laundering case for alleged terror financing.<br/><br/>The prosecution complaint, the ED's parlance for a charge sheet, filed before the Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma also names alleged hawala dealer Mohammed Aslam Wani, who is in judicial custody along with Shah. The court took cognisance of the over 700-page charge sheet and directed the production of the accused before it on 27th of this month.<br/><br/>The charge sheet relied upon 19 witnesses, a senior official said. The probe agency also recorded the statement of Wani where he allegedly said that he came to Delhi from Srinagar at the directions of Shah sometime in April, 2003 and that was the first time he had met him. Wani was arrested by the ED on August 6 from Srinagar.

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