JAMMU, May 27: Special Judge NIA Jammu Jatinder Singh Jamwal today framed charges against Jatinder Singh alias Babu Singh (former Minister), Mohd Shareef Shah, Fayaz Ahmad Bhat, Mubashir Mushtaq, Mohd Rafiq, Aijaz Ahmad Sayam, Farooq Ahmad Naikoo, Mohd Arshad and Syed Ashiq Elahi in terror funding case.
The case was registered on 31.03.2022 in Police-Station Gandhi Nagar and subsequently the investigation was transferred to the State Investigation Agency for carrying out an in-depth investigation.
Besides the initial charge-sheet filed by the investigation agency on 24.09.2022, four supplementary charge-sheets have been filed so far in the case & in its fourth supplementary charge-sheet filed on 20.02.2024, the Investigation Agency has arraigned as many as six more persons as accused in the case taking the total number of accused persons to 18.
Moreover, proceedings under Section 299 of CrPC were initiated against three out of the 12 accused persons (arraigned as accused in the initial and firstly supplementary charge-sheets) namely Mohd Hussain Khateeb, Kifayat Rizvi & Tariq Ahmad as they are presently settled in and operating from Pak occupied Jammu Kashmir but their presence could not be secured for the purpose of investigation and trial.
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