National Investigation Agency (NIA) today raided the residence of Hizbul Mujahideen Chief Syed Salahuddin at Soibugh in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The raid took place at around 7 am. The NIA sleuths also recovered documents from the residence of the Hizbul chief. The officials left soon after the recovery of the documents.
The raid comes two days after Salahuddin’s son Shahid Yusuf was arrested by NIA in connection with the 2011 terror funding case.
Arrest was carried out a day after Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced Centre’s decision to start a dialogue process in Jammu and Kashmir.
Meanwhile,Delhi court today sent Syed Shahid Yousuf, son of Syed Salahuddin, to seven days NIA custody in connection with a 2011 funding case for allegedly receiving money from his father.
Yousuf, who was arrested yesterday by National Investigation Agency (NIA), was produced before District and Sessions Judge Poonam A Bamba, who allowed the probe agency’s plea for his custody.
According to the agency, 42-year-old Shahid, who works in the agricultural department of the Jammu and Kashmir government, was summoned to the agency’s headquarters where he was arrested after questioning yesterday