New Delhi: The Home Ministry is set to sanction the prosecution of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik, Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief Asiya Andrabi and All Party Hurriyat Conference general secretary Masarat Alam sources reported.
The arrests were made in the month of April by the NIA on the charges of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for allegedly receiving funds from Pakistan to carry out terrorist activities and stone pelting in 2010 and 2016 ET reports.
The NIA is expected to file a charge sheet after obtaining the sanction in the first week of October said the officials familiar with the details. The charge sheet may also include name of Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed.
Malik, Andrabi, Alam and Shabir Shah are currently imprisoned in Delhi’s Tihar jail.
Central government approval is mandatory under Section 45 of the UAPA which is likely to be cleared by the next week failing which the separatist leaders will be liable for bail.
In the previously filed charge sheet last year, the NIA named former Hurriyat chief’s son-in-law Altaf Fantosh, Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Ahmed Shah Watali, Naeem Khan, Raja Mehrajudin Kalwal, Bashir Ahmed Bhat, alias Peer Saifullah, Aftab Hilali Shah, alias Shahid ul Islam, Farooq Ahmed Dar, alias Bitta Karate, Mohammad Akbar Khandey, alias Ayaz Akbar and Javed Ahmed Bhat, among others.
The supplementary charge sheet against Malik and others will include details pertaining to contacts of hawala operators, traders, ledger books containing accounts of cross-border Line of Control (LoC) trade of various trading companies, details of bank accounts of Jammu and Kashmir, and travel documents of some entities showing their visits to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).