The National Investigation Agency on Thursday raided six non-governmental organisations and trusts in Delhi and Srinagar in a terror fundi...
The National Investigation Agency on Thursday raided six non-governmental organisations and trusts in Delhi and Srinagar in a terror funding case, ANI reported. The raids were a continuation of the agency’s searches at 10 locations in Jammu and Kashmir and one in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
The non-profits searched by the agency were Falah-e-Aam Trust, Charity Alliance, Human Welfare Foundation, JK Yateem Foundation, Salvation Movement and J&K Voice of Victims. Charity Alliance and Human Welfare Foundation are based in Delhi, while the rest of the non-profits are in Srinagar, NDTV reported.
Former Delhi Minority Commission chief Zafarul-Islam Khan is the Chairperson of Charity Alliance, according to the news channel.
The NIA had on Wednesday said that it was carrying out the raids in a case related to “so-called NGOs and trusts raising funds in India and abroad in the name of charitable activities and then using those funds for carrying out secessionist and separatist activities in Jammu and Kashmir”.
It added that a new case was registered based on credible information that the non-governmental organisations are using funds for terrorist activities.
The locations raided included the offices of English newspaper Greater Kashmir and NGO Athroot, the home of human rights activist Khurram Parvez, and a houseboat named HB Hilton in the Dal Lake, IANS reported....
