Delhi High Court grants bail to Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin’s elder son

STC NEWS MONITORING DESK
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 08 (STC): The Delhi High Court has today granted bail to Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin’s elder son Syed Ahmad Shakeel, but rejected the bail plea of Salahuddin’s younger son Shahid Yousuf, both of whom are facing terror funding charges in a 2011 case, reports Indian Express.
The bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur pronounced that Shakeel be enlarged on bail upon furnishing personal surety of Rs 1 lakh. A detailed order is awaited.
Shakeel, a former lab technician at a government hospital, was arrested in 2018 by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from Srinagar. His younger brother Yousuf, who was working for J-K’s agriculture department, was arrested in October 2017. Yousuf was accused of receiving funds from Pakistan for terror operations in J-K and was charge-sheeted in the case in 2019. Shakeel, on the other hand, was accused of raising, receiving, and collecting funds from terrorist organisations through an active cadre in Saudi Arabia.
In 2021, the Jammu and Kashmir administration had dismissed 11 government employees, including Salahuddin’s two sons, for their alleged terror links and support for terrorism.
The case, registered by the NIA in April 2011, relates to the alleged transfer of money from Pakistan to Jammu and Kashmir through hawala channels via Delhi.
Salahuddin was declared a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Department of State in June 2017.

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