Enforcement Directorate gets 7-day custody of Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah

New Delhi: Separatist leader Shabir Shah, who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with the alleged terror funding case, was on Wednesday sent to a seven-day custody. 

Shabir, who heads the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party, was arrested from his Sanatnagar residence on Tuesday evening in a 12-year-old money laundering case. 

He was produced before the Delhi's Patiala House court after which he was sent to a 7-day custody of the Enforcement Directorate.

While defending himself on the matter, Shabir alleged political vendetta behind his arrest. "There is no truth in it. It is a political vendetta," ANI quoted Shabir as saying outside Patiala House court. 

Shah was arrested in connection with a 12-year-old money laundering case against him for alleged terror financing. His links were first exposed when Delhi Police Special Cell arrested Mohammad Aslam Wani, an alleged hawala dealer, in August 2005. During an interrogation, Wani revealed that the money he possessed was funded from Pakistan. 

Out of total Rs 63 lakh recovered from Wani, at least 53 lakh was supposed to go to Shabir Shah, the arrested hawala dealer had revealed during the investigation.

The Enforcement Directorate issued at least eight summons to Shabir, but he never deposed before the central investigating agency.