The National Investigation Agency has claimed that after the death of Hizbul Mujahideen poster boy Burhan Wani in 2016, PDP leader Waheed ur Rehman Para, Altaf Ahmed Shah, son-in-law of hardline Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, to keep the Kashmir Valley in a shambles. , Aka Altaf Funtush, was given five crore rupees. Para was arrested by the National Investigation Agency in January on charges of having links with banned terrorist organizations such as Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba.This was revealed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a charge sheet recently filed in a special court in Jammu. The NIA alleged that after the death of Wani, who was killed in an encounter with the army in July 2016, Para was in contact with Altaf Ahmad Shah, and asked him to ensure that the Kashmir Valley was to remain completely disturbed. Stoning and violence should occur on a wide scale.Para, through his lawyer, denies the allegations and claims that he was arrested for political reasons. After this, the court granted bail to him for not being named in the supplementary charge sheet. He was then arrested again by the Counter Intelligence Wing in Kashmir, and has been in jail ever since. His bail was rejected by an NIA court in Srinagar.
The PDP had earlier claimed that the central government was pressurizing the mercury into a strategy to change its fold and join the BJP. The NIA’s charge sheet alleged that Para had paid Shah Rs 5 crore, which was also believed to be a close associate of Geelani. Para gave this amount to the Hurriyat Conference on behalf of the PDP. During this time, Shah was in close contact with the party’s youth leader, Para. Para is considered a close confidant of PDP chief and then chief minister Mehbooba Mufti.
