The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is almost ready to file a supplementary chargesheet under the amended Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in terror funding case naming Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik, Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief Asiya Andrabi, All Party Hurriyat Conference general secretary Masarat Alam and separatist leader Shabbir Shah, among others.
It is learnt that the agency may file the chargesheet before October 15 after getting the Union Home Ministry’s nod for prosecution of Yasin Malik, Asiya Andrabi and Masarat Alam — all taken into custody by the NIA in April and now lodged in the Tihar Jail here.
Sources said the NIA had recovered during searches on Yasin Malik’s premises a digital diary which mentions receipt of money from Hafiz Saeed’s outfit Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD).
Besides this, the NIA has gathered evidence against Alam for taking funding from JuD. The funds received from JuD were utilised for distribution among youths for stone-pelting on security forces and to stoke violence in the Valley.
In its first chargesheet filed last year, the NIA named hardline Hurriyat chief Syed Ali Geelani’s son-in-law Altaf Fantosh, Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Ahmed Shah Watali and a few others.