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New Delhi: Severely indicting All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) and its chairman Abdul Gani Bhat for allegedly channelling funds from Pakistan to terrorist outfits in the country, Delhi police have claimed that Bhat could not explain the source of the Rs two lakhs recovered from the house of his Kashmir Awareness Bureau (KAB) chief in New Delhi.

Bhat had been using KAB chief Shabir Ahmed Dar and the arrested Hurriyat activist Anjum Zamrooda Habib to collect money from former Pakistani Deputy High Commissioner to India Jalil Abbas Jilani, police said in the chargesheet filed in the case, adding that Habib was to pass this money to ultras through Bhat, who would also instruct Dar how to utilise the funds.

The APHC chairman, who was interrogated in Srinagar, could not explain the source of the money recovered from Dar, though he did not confess his direct involvement, it said.

Dar, police claim, had confessed that the money was provided by Jilani for funding terrorist activities in India.

Leaving the APHC further red faced, it said investigation had established that senior Hurriyat leader Abdul Gani Lone gave Rs 9.5 lakh to KAB to purchase a Mitsubishi Lancer car. Bhat could not provide information on this money too, it said.

From this, it is evident that APHC and the persons linked with it have been holding unaccountable funds with them and spending the same on terrorist outfits for their activities or for activities affiliated to them, it added.

However, the investigators were not able to collect direct and sufficient evidence against Bhat, the chargesheet said, adding he was hence not arrested. However, his name has been placed in column two, indicating that he is not being sent for trial.

Meanwhile, on the list of 69 prisoners allegedly seized from the KAB office, the chargesheet said 28 of these were still lodged in Tihar jail.

The prisoners whose names figure in the list include many from Pakistan and Bangladesh besides those from Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Kolkata.

Recoveries from the office also included a letter written by its chief Firdaus Asime to APHC chairman to make payments to three advocates, who it claimed were dealing with the cases of Kashmiri detenues.

On the diary claimed to have been seized from Habib, who was arrested from outside the Pakistani High Commission, police said it mentioned the names of terrorist outfits – Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e- Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen and al-Umar – all banned under Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), and corresponding entries of the money to be disbursed among them.

These entries were also made as per the directions of Jilani, the chargesheet claimed, adding the diplomat could not however be prosecuted as he enjoyed diplomatic immunity.

However, his name too has been put in column two of the chargesheet.

PTI