Former J&K minister Babu Singh comes up in hawala case
India Today
Former Jammu and Kashmir minister Babu Singh has been named in a hawala transaction case. Police arrested one man in the case and are now on the lookout for Singh.
Former Jammu & Kashmir minister Babu Singh, who is a suspect in a hawala transaction case, has gone absconding, said cops. Singh's link to the case came up when the Jammu & Kashmir Police on Thursday arrested a 64-year-old man and seized hawala cash worth nearly Rs 7 lakh. The hawala cash was allegedly meant to support insurgency in the Jammu district, the police said.
Based on a tip, that some people were going to receive hawala money in Jammu, several checkposts were set up in Jammu city. At one such post, police intercepted a suspect, Mohammad Shareef Shah (64) from Syedpora in Anantnag, from the Gandhi Nagar area and seized the money from him.
Shah disclosed that he was tasked by Jatinder Singh aka Babu Singh, chairman of Nature-Mankind Friendly Global Party and a former minister in the PDP-Congress coalition government in Jammu & Kashmir, to collect money from a person named Omer in Srinagar. After receiving money from Omer, Shareef came to Jammu.
Shareef revealed the names of his local and overseas associates — Javed and Khatib from PoK and Farooq Khan from Toronto. Shareef is also the administrator of a secret WhatsApp group having members from various nations, including Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
Three persons — S Gurdev Singh from Jammu, Sidhant Sharma from Kathua and Shrief Sartaj from Jammu — were detained for questioning. A case has been registered and an investigation is in progress.
