A Delhi court today sent to 14-day judicial custody Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah, who was arrested in a decade-old money laundering case for alleged terror financing.<br/><br/>Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma sent the accused to jail after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) submitted that he was not required for further custodial interrogation.<br/><br/>Earlier, on August 3, the court had allowed the ED custody of Shah after the agency alleged that he was ruining the country by using money to fund terror.<br/><br/>Shah was arrested by the ED a day after several Hurriyat leaders were taken into custody of the National Investigating Agency (NIA) in a case of alleged terror funding in the Valley to fuel unrest.<br/><br/>He was taken into custody in the August 2005 case in which the Special Cell of Delhi Police had arrested Mohammed Aslam Wani, an alleged hawala dealer who is currently in ED custody. Police claimed that 63 lakh rupees were recovered from Wani out of which 52 lakh rupees were allegedly to be delivered to Shah.<br/><br/>After the accused was sent to judicial custody, a bail application was moved by his lawyer, claiming that the charges levelled against Shah were motivated and based on falsehood.

A Delhi court today sent to 14-day judicial custody Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah, who was arrested in a decade-old money laundering case for alleged terror financing.<br/><br/>Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma sent the accused to jail after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) submitted that he was not required for further custodial interrogation.<br/><br/><br/>Earlier, on August 3 the court had allowed the ED custody of Shah after the agency alleged that he was ruining the country by using money to fund terror. <br/><br/>Shah was arrested by the ED a day after several Hurriyat leaders were taken into custody of the National Investigating Agency (NIA) in a case of alleged terror funding in the Valley<br/>to fuel unrest.<br/><br/>He was taken into custody in the August 2005 case in which the Special Cell of Delhi Police had arrested Mohammed Aslam Wani, an alleged hawala dealer who is currently in ED custody. <br/><br/>Police claimed that 63 lakh rupees were recovered from Wani out of which 52 lakh rupees were allegedly to be delivered to Shah.