New Delhi, May 30: Severely indicting All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) and its chairman Abdul Gani Bhat for allegedly channelling funds from Pakistan to terrorist outfits in the country, Delhi Police have claimed that Bhat could not explain the source of the Rs 2 lakh recovered from the house of his Kashmir Awareness Bureau (KAB) chief here. Bhat had been using KAB chief Shabir Ahmed Dar and the arrested Hurriyat activist Anjum Zamrooda Habib to collect money from former Pakistani deputy high commissioner to India jalil abbas jilani, police said in the chargesheet filed in the case adding Habib was to pass this money to ultras through Bhat who would also instruct Dar how to utilise the funds.
The APHC chairman, who was interrogated in Srinagar, could not explain the source of the money recovered from Dar, though he did not confess his direct involvement, it said. Dar, police claim, had confessed that the money was provided by Jilani for funding terrorist activities in India.
Leaving the APHC further red faced, it said investigation had established that senior Hurriyat leader Abdul Gani Lone gave Rs 9.5 lakh to KAB to purchase a Mitsubishi Lancer car. Bhat could not provide information on this money too, it said. From this it is evident that APHC and persons linked with it have been holding unaccountable fund with them and spending the same on terrorist outfits for their activities or for activities affiliated to them, it added.
However, the investigators were not able to collect direct and sufficient evidence against Bhat, the chargesheet said adding he was hence not arrested. However, his name has been placed in Column 2 indicating that he is not being sent for trial. Bureau Report