NIA files chargesheet against three accused persons in cross-border LoC trade, terror funding case

STATE TIMES NEWS

National Investigation Agency today filed chargesheet against three accused persons-Tanveer Ahmad Wani, Peer Arshad Iqbal and Bashir Ahmad Sofi in the cross-border LoC trade and terror funding case.

The accused persons were charge-sheeted u/s 120B IPC & UAPA pertaining to the case registered on December 16, 2016 for profiteering and generation of funds through cross-LoC trade between J&K and PoK and using of those funds for the promotion of terrorist activities in J&K.

It has also been found that some of the cross-LoC traders of PoK are crossed-over terrorists and were backed by the terrorist outfit, Hizb-Ul-Muzahideen (HM). The trade was suspended in April 2019.