The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday attached a house and two kanals of land belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin's two sons in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam and Srinagar districts, officials said.

In a statement, the NIA said it attached two properties of the sons of designated terrorist Syed Mohammed Yusuf Shah @ Syed Salahuddin, the self-styled Supreme Commander of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) and Chairman of United Jihad Council (UJC).

“The immovable properties of Shahid Yusuf and Syed Ahmed Shakeel, located in Kashmir – in Soibugh Tehsil, Distt. Budgam and Nursing Garh, Mohalla Ram Bagh, have been attached under section 33(1) of the UAPA Act,” the agency said.

The properties included one house and two kanals, officials said.

The NIA attached the house, in Ram Bagh area which was registered in the name of Syed Ahmed Shakeel, and later a plot of agricultural land measuring two kanals (10,880 square feet) was done in Soibugh in Budgam district.

Notice boards announcing the attachments were installed at both premises by the NIA sleuths.

Besides, the NIA also seized six shops in Awantipora area of Pulwama district in a case relating to a 2018 attack on CRPF Group Centre at Lethpora, J&K.

Both Shahid Yusuf and Syed Ahmed Shakeel are lodged in Delhi's Tihar Jail since their arrests in October 2017 and August 2018.

They were charge-sheeted on April 20, 2018, and November 20, 2018, respectively.

The duo had been receiving funds from abroad from the associates of their father and overground workers of HM, it added.

Salahuddin, who had fled to Pakistan in 1993, was designated as an individual terrorist by India in October 2020.

He continues to operate from Pakistan, from where he is guiding and instructing Hizbul cadres as well as activists of UJC, also known as Muttahida Jihad Council (MJC) which is a conglomerate of around 13 Pakistan-based Kashmir-centric terror outfits.

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