Srinagar, Nov 12, KDC: Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Nalin Prabhat has ordered the attachment of the residential property of Advocate Mian Abdul Qayoom in Srinagar in connection with a 2009 case related to what police described as an “anti-India seminar” allegedly addressed by several “separatist leaders.”
According to the order issued by the DGP, on December 31, 2009, Shaheed Gunj Police had received information that a seminar marking the death anniversary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah was held at Hotel Jahangir in Srinagar. The event, “organised by Feroz Ahmad Khan of the Muslim League,” was reportedly attended by “Aasia Andrabi, Shabir Ahmad Najar, and Mian Abdul Qayoom,” who allegedly “delivered anti-India speeches and raised slogans.”
During the investigation, police said statements of witnesses were recorded, which “confirmed that the participants had made inflammatory remarks, provoked the audience, and advocated secession of Jammu and Kashmir.”
A subsequent search of Qayoom’s residence at Bulbul Bagh, Barzulla, conducted after obtaining a magistrate’s warrant and in the presence of independent witnesses and an Executive Magistrate, “led to the recovery of banned literature, a Hizbul Mujahideen letterhead with seal impression, a press-note-type document, a letter addressed by Syed Salahuddin to then US President Bill Clinton, and another HM seal impression in Urdu,” the order stated.
Investigators concluded that Qayoom had allegedly “used his two-storey house and adjoining land measuring over two kanals to conceal incriminating material and aid unlawful activities.”
The property, registered under mutation number 338 in Qayoom’s name, has been “categorised as proceeds of terrorism,” and authorities have “approved its attachment under relevant provisions of law.”
Officials said the action forms part of the continuing drive to “dismantle the terror ecosystem” and ensure that properties used for “unlawful or anti-national activities” are dealt with under law. (KDC)
