Digital Desk: The Delhi Police special cell announced on Friday that a 48-year-old man had been detained in the walled city for allegedly acting as a hawala agent to finance terrorist groups including the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Al Badr.
A coordinated
operation between the Jammu and Kashmir Police and federal authorities resulted
in the arrest.
According to HGS
Dhaliwal, the special commissioner of police (special cell), Mohammed Yaseen, a
Turkman Gate resident, has been named as the culprit.
The police took action
after receiving information about a suspect operating out of the Meena Bazar
neighbourhood of Old Delhi and sponsoring terrorism from federal agencies and
the J&K police. Accordingly, we sent out a raid team in and near Meena Bazar,
and we managed to catch him, according to the police.
On August 17, Yaseen
provided about Rs 10 lakh to J&K-based terrorist Abdul Hamid Mir to fund
his anti-Indian activities. According to Dhaliwal, the Jammu and Kashmir police
made a case out of it and detained Mir, a resident of Poonch, at the Jammu bus
station along with the money.
Yaseen is a garment
trader by trade, but the authorities claim that he also acts as a conduit for
hawala money, bringing monies from his sources abroad and distributing them in
J&K.
"Yaseen admitted under questioning that the hawala money is sent from South Africa through Surat and Mumbai. Yaseen served as the hawala chain's Delhi connection, and various couriers were used to send the money to J&K, according to the officer.
According to the police, he recently got Rs 24 lakh from South Africa, of which he sent Rs 17 lakh to terror agents in J&K via two different couriers; Rs 7 lakh have already been found in his home during the search operation.
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