Court to pass order on charges against Hizbul chief

A Delhi court is likely to pass on September 21 its order on framing of charges in a case in which Hizb-ul-Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin is listed in a charge sheet for allegedly receiving nearly Rs 80 crore funds from Pakistan for carrying out terror activities across India.

The court said that if no clarification was required on arguments advanced by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the four accused, who are present before it, then it would pass the order on charge on September 21.

"Now the case to come up for clarifications, if any/order on <g data-gr-id="24">charge</g> on September 21," Additional sessions <g data-gr-id="23">judge</g> Neena Bansal Krishna said.

NIA had filed charge sheets in the case against Salahuddin and 11 others, in which eight are based in Pakistan and have been declared proclaimed offenders by the court earlier.

They have been named in the charge sheet for the offences punishable under sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 121-A (conspiring to commit certain offences against the state) of the IPC and under various provisions of the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).

NIA, in its charge sheets, had alleged that Hizb-ul- Mujahideen (HM) was "regularly receiving funds from neighbouring country" and the funds were given to "active terrorists, families of killed terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir."