Srinagar: The State Investigation Agency (SIA) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday conducted raids at eight locations in a case related to the collection and use of funds by cleric Sarjan Barkati, the face of “anti-national” protests in 2016. The same is true for personal gain, officials said. Barkati is notorious for mobilizing thousands of people on the streets during the violent 2016 agitation through his inflammatory oratory. Known as Chitkabra Murliwala, Sarjan Barkati used to openly invite and incite youths to commit violence and subvert the Indian state in Jammu and Kashmir. SIA has registered a case FIR No. 02/23 related to Crowd Funding against Sarjan Barkati and others in which he has raised a huge amount of more than 1.5 Crore, his family makes an emotional appeal to the public to support him day by day is of. need of the day
In this guise, he not only amassed huge money but also diverted money prima facie suspected to be originating from terrorist organizations from unknown sources for further use in maintaining the separatist-terrorist campaign.
So far the SIA has identified 10 suspects whose involvement has come to the fore in the preliminary investigation. Early morning raids are being conducted in many districts of Kashmir.
Each search is supported by a search warrant issued by a competent court, magistrate, local police assistance, women police team, spotters and transport assistance by the Security Branch of the J&K Police.
With the seizure of electronic gadgets, incriminating material and other supporting evidence during these searches, the SIA hopes that the searches will help it extract some crucial evidence as to who all have contributed to the Sarjan Barkati Fund, how much such money What was the source, how much of it was from legitimate income and how much from unaccountable sources, whether such sources had anything to do with terror and Hurriyat finances.
Preliminary investigation has revealed that Sarjan Barkati has diverted a huge amount of money for his personal gains and bought a piece of land in Anantnag city in the name of his wife worth ₹45 lakh, which he sold for ₹72 lakh. Gave and earned a profit of Rs. 27 lakhs, and has also built a palatial house using public money.
He has also purchased 5 kanals of land to set up a madrasa, which as per reliable information is to make money and provide a platform to anti-national elements and aims to become a breeding ground to attract youth towards militancy Is.
A major chunk of such illegal earnings has been deposited in several FDRs in the names of his family members. The accused has breached public trust with emotional blackmail by building personal fortune on crowd funds donated to him by public not only for daily sustenance but also by siphoning off money coming from dubious sources in the garb of crowdfunding carried forward. separatist-terrorist campaign