Former DGP rank officer surfaces as ‘partner’ of Hawala-tainted businessman in NIA probe Terror Funding

SRINAGAR, Aug 3: An Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Jammu and Kashmir cadre who held senior positions in the Jammu and Kashmir Police before his retirement as Director General of Police has dramatically surfaced as “collaborator” and “partner” of a prominent Kashmiri businessman during the current investigation of National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the money allegedly received by the separatists through Hawala and other illegal channels.
According to a dossier prepared by the NIA after weeks of the high-octane investigation, the Srinagar-based businessman, whose residential and business premises, were raided on June 3 and 4, has bought properties and lands at several places in Kashmir including at Ompora and Doodh Pathri (Budgam), Ahmad Nagar and Zaffran Colony (Srinagar). He has also houses in Dubai, Jammu and Srinagar.
As per the NIA dossier, same businessman is also “learnt to have bought some pr
Surprising!
Even as the IPS officer put up an exceptionally brilliant performance on the counterinsurgency front in Jammu and Kashmir and enjoyed good reputation for decades of his career, his name is learnt to have figured in the Hawala-tainted businessman’s dubious property acquisitions outside J&K.
perties outside the State in New Delhi and Gurgaon, in collaboration and partnership” with a former DGP.
The retired IPS officer served at top positions in J&K when he was appointed as DGP . Even as the IPS officer put up an exceptionally brilliant performance on the counterinsurgency front in Jammu and Kashmir and enjoyed good reputation for decades of his career, his name is learnt to have figured in the Hawala-tainted businessman’s dubious property acquisitions outside J&K.
The retired IPS officer’s alleged partner in Srinagar belongs to a highly influential relatives network of senior government officials, top bureaucrats. For decades he (Kashmiri businessman) was known for his proximity to a particular separatist organisation and two militant outfits. He was once arrested in 1990. Some senior JKLF militants had also been arrested in the same BSF raid and a quantity of arms and ammunition had also been seized from his premises. Courtesy: Early Times