The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday filed a chargesheet in Al Huda Educational Trust (AHET) terror funding case, linked to the Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI), which had set up the Trust to mobilise funds to further its anti-India agenda even after it was banned.
Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) terrorist, Mushtaq Ahmed Mir alias Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, is among the four individuals / entities named in the chargesheet. Zargar was released in the aftermath of the Indian Airlines flight 814 hijacking in 1999. JEI, Jammu and Kashmir was declared an Unlawful Association under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in 2019. The NIA, which was subsequently mandated to investigate the continued suspicious activities of the banned terror outfit, had registered a case against JEI in September 2022.
The agency filed the chargesheet before the NIA Special Court, Jammu and Kashmir, after extensive investigations and multiple raids in the Valley, the agency said. “A Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) terrorist, Mushtaq Ahmed Mir alias Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, is among the four individuals / entities named in chargesheet. Others charged in the case are AHET, Md. Amir Shamshi, a ‘rukun’ (primary member) and chairperson of AHET, and Abdul Hamid Ganai alias Abdul Hamid Fayaz of Shopian. All four have been charged under various sections of UA (P) Act and Indian Penal Code (IPC),” it said.
Investigations have revealed that Md. Amir Shamshi was responsible for the day to day working of AHET, which was formed by JEI with the explicit purpose of mobilising funds to carry on its secessionist activities in Jammu and Kashmir, the agency said in its chargesheet.