The State Investigation Agency (SIA) Jammu today filed fourth supplementary charge sheet against six more accused in a case relating to terror funding in India, taking the total toll of accused to 18.
Mohd Sharief Chechi, Farooq Ahmad Jungal and Saif Din who were arrested by SIA recently have been charge-sheeted under various Sections of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967, Narcotic Drug Psychotropic Substance Act and Indian Penal Code relating to criminal conspiracy, raising funds for Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, a proscribed terrorist organization .
The SIA Jammu had seized an amount of Rs 10 lac and freezed more than Rs 70 lac in bank accounts which were the proceeds from narcotics smuggled from PoJK. Other 3 accused namely Hamidullah Khuroo, Farooq Ahmad Shawl and Javid Ahmad Chalkoo, all HM terrorists , are evading their arrest and are presently in Pakistan.
The accused were involved in smuggling heroin from PoJK in Uri, Hathlanga, Baramulla and further transporting and selling of heroin in Jammu to generate huge proceeds which was further planned to be delivered to OGWs of HM, a proscribed terrorist organization.
Out of the total accused, proceedings for attaching their property Under Section 82/83 have been initiated.
SIA Investigation revealed that there is a well organized drug syndicate, including Farooq Ahmad Naikoo who was operating from Dubai, Mohd Rafiq Najar, Mubashir Mushtaq Fafoo, Ainaz Ahmad Sayam, Mohd Sharief Chechi, Farooq Ahmad Jungal and Saif Din, who after hatching conspiracy with HM terrorists Farooq Ahmad Shawl, Hamidullah Khuroo, Tariq Ahmad Malla and Javid Chalkoo operating from Pakistan infused narcotics into the Indian territory and further transported the said narcotics to Jammu for generating huge narco-terror funds to be used for funding secessionist and terror activities.
Also read: Google suspends Gemini AI chatbot’s ability to generate pictures of people