Central Inquiry Agency Enforcement Directorate, Thursday, raided the homes of jailed Hurriyat leader Qazi Yasir and Jammu and Kashmir Salvation Movement president Zaffar Bhat in connection with its ongoing disquisition in the terror backing case involving top Kashmiri rebel leaders. An ED platoon is also conducting a raid at the house of one Syed Khalid Geelani in Srinagar’s Baghat area, they said.
The functionary said raids are being conducted in connection with the case of allowing MBBS seats to J&K residers in different sodalities in Pakistan, the authorities said. Specially, Yasir’s shopping complex was demolished by authorities in Anantnag last month as it was erected on encroached government land. The raids took place in Srinagar’s Bagh-e-Mehtab and Anantnag’s Qazi Mohalla. The agency also raided one of Syed Khalid Geelani’s houses. Quoting anonymous sources, reports claimed that the raids are linked to the allotment of MBBS seats to Jammu and Kashmir residers in sodalities across Pakistan.
In February, the quarter administration of Anantnag under the on going anti-encroachment drive, demolished an illegal shopping complex belonging to Qazir Yasir. A quarter administration spokesperson had said that Hurriyat leader Qazi Yasir had immorally raised the shopping complex on state land near colosseum in Anantnag, adding that complex was razed and shops in the property sealed which will be handed over to the External council Anantnag. Qazi Ahmed Yasir, a Kashmiri separatist leader, who belonged to the Mirwaiz Umar Farooq- led Hurriyat (M), was protests out of the group in 2018 after an alleged videotape of doing stag acts with a woman went viral on social media.
Yasir, the former Mirwaiz of South Kashmir, is in jail since 2018. On February 2, the authorities demolished the business complex possessed by Qazu Yasir in Anantnag. A JCB bulldozer was used to incompletely demolish sections of the structure, which had allegedly been erected immorally on government property near the colosseum in Anantnag. The obliteration was carried out in the morning by Jammu and Kashmir police and officers from the Anantnag quarter administration’s profit department. The structure was yet to be rented out. The structure was sealed and listed to be handed over to the Municipal Council, Anantnag.