Custody of nine terror funding accused extended
New Delhi Jan 19 (IANS) A court here on Friday extended till February 5 the judicial custody of nine persons arrested on charges of funding terror in Jammu and Kashmir.
During in-camera proceedings Special Judge O.P. Saini gave the order after the nine were presented before him on expiry of their 30-day judicial custody.
The NIA on November 7 seized nearly Rs 36.5 crore in demonetised currency and arrested nine persons in its ongoing probe into the Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case.
The accused failed to explain the reason of possessing such huge amounts of money.
Those held are Pradeep Chauhan 47 Bhagwan Singh 54 Vinod Shreedhar Shetty 47 Shahnawaz Mir 45 Deepak Toprani 60 Majid Yousuf Sofi 27 Ejajul Hassan 38 Umar Mushtaq Dar 27 and Jaswinder Singh 53.
Three of them hail from Jammu and Kashmir two from Delhi two from Mumbai and one each from Uttar Pradesh and Nagpur.
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