Srinagar: To look into militant funding in the Valley, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued directions to the state home department to set up special courts on the lines of National Investigation Agency (NIA) courts in Jammu and Srinagar.
In a written communication to the state, the MHA said, “A specially constituted group of the J&K Police could expedite investigation into the cases against separatists while the state home department apart from expediting prosecution and sanction, could nominate special courts at Srinagar and Jammu to try the cases under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) on the lines of NIA courts.”
The home department has been asked to expedite UAPA cases as many are stuck with them in the absence of sanction.
The ministry asked the police to hand over copies of FIRs and challans in the militancy-funding cases to the Enforcement Directorate for initiation of further action in money laundering cases from the state.
The cross-Line of Control (LoC) traders have also come under the scanner with revenue intelligence authorities set to investigate the money laundering cases.
“The Jammu and Kashmir Police would also inquire into the names of hawala operators and cross-LoC traders shared by the National Investigation Agency and Enforcement Directorate while the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence would take up a few of these cases to understand the modus operandi in trade-based money laundering,” it said.
It said the “Financial Intelligence Units (FIU) would elicit suspicious transaction reports on cash settlement of credit card transactions for the last year while the J&K Police inquire into 50 top transactions for such data shared for earlier years. The police would inquire into the list drawn by FIU of suspected persons,” it said.
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