PTINew Delhi: After intense grilling for two weeks, Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah was on Wednesday sent to a 14-day judicial custody by a court in New Delhi in a decade-old case of money laundering for alleged terror-financing. Additional sessions judge Sidharth Sharma sent Shah to jail for two weeks after the accused was produced before him on the expiry of his Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody and after the central probe agency’s lawyer, N.K. After the accused was sent to judicial custody, a bail application was moved by his lawyer M.S. The agency had earlier issued summonses to Shah in the case, the prosecution had said, adding that Wani had claimed that he had given Rs2.25 crore to the Kashmiri separatist leader. Investigating agencies such as the NIA have cracked down on Hurriyat leaders like Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s son-in-law, Altaf Ahmed Shah, also known as Altaf Fantoosh, and six other Kashmiri separatists.

Source: Mint August 09, 2017 14:26 UTC