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Shahid Yusuf and Syed Ahmed Shakeel are housed in Delhi's Tihar Prison (representational) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) seized a house and two plots of land belonging to the two sons of Hizbul Mujahideen leader Syed Salahudeen in the Budgam and Srinagar districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, the authorities said. authorities. A team of NIA officials first tied up a house in the Ram Bagh area here registered to Syed Ahmed Shakeel, the son of designated terrorist Salahudeen, they said. "The house, registered in the income records in the name of Syed Ahmad Shakeel, was seized by the NIA by court order under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act," an NIA official said.
The team later traveled to Soiugh in the Budgam district, the ancestral home of one of India's most wanted terrorists, and occupied a two-canal farmland (10,880 square feet), authorities said.
The land is registered in the name of another son of Salahudeen, Shahid Yusuf.
NIA detectives placed billboards advertising the attachments at both facilities.
In addition, the NIA also seized six shops in the Awantipora area of the Pulwama district in a case related to a 2018 attack on the CRPF Group Center in Lethpora, J&K.
In a statement, the NIA said it attached two properties of the sons of designated terrorist Syed Mohammed Yusuf Shah @Syed Salahudeen, the so-called supreme commander of Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen (HM) and chairman of the United Jihad Council (UJC). .
"The real estate holdings of Shahid Yusuf and Syed Ahmed Shakeel, located in Kashmir, at Soiugh Tehsil, Distt. Budgam and Nursing Garh, Mohalla Ram Bagh, have been seized under Section 33(1) of the AU(P)" , the nia said. has said.
Both Shahid Yusuf and Syed Ahmed Shakeel have been detained at Tihar Prison in Delhi since their arrests in October 2017 and August 2018. They were charged on April 20, 2018 and November 20, 2018, respectively. The duo had received overseas funding from his father's associates and HM surface workers, it added.
Salahudeen, who fled to Pakistan in 1993, was designated as an individual terrorist by India in October 2020. He continues to operate from Pakistan, from where he guides and instructs Hizbul cadres, as well as militants from the 'UJC, also known like Muttahida Jihad. . Council (MJC), which is a conglomerate of around 13 Kashmiri-focused terrorist groups headquartered in Pakistan.
In addition to instigating and launching terrorist activities in India, mainly in the Kashmir Valley, Salahudeen raised funds and channeled funds to India through hawala channels and international money transfer channels to further the terrorist activities of the executives of Your Majesty.
The NIA launched investigations in November 2011 into criminal conspiracy to collect/collect/provide funds to commit terrorist acts and distribute funds to terrorist groups and their sympathizers in J&K for the purpose of committing terrorist acts. The Delhi Police Special Cell initially registered a case in January 2011 and then the NIA took over the case. Additional indictments and indictments have been filed against eight defendants in the case, including in 2011 and 2018.
The NIA has launched a crackdown on terrorist financing schemes with the aim of dismantling the terrorist financing ecosystem that operates in Jammu and Kashmir with the help of individuals based in Pakistan and other countries.
