Former J&K Minister Jatinder Singh alias Babu Singh was arrested on Saturday in a hawala case that was busted in March, with the security agencies suspecting that money “was being used for terrorism and separatism in J&K”.
Officials said Mr. Singh, who had been absconding since March 31, was arrested from Kathua district. Earlier, a lookout notice was issued for him on April 6.
In March, the police said they recovered ₹6.90 lakh from one Mohammad Shareef Shah, a resident of south Kashmir’s Kokernag. He was tasked by Mr. Singh, at present chairman of the Nature — Mankind Friendly Global Party, to collect money from Omer in Srinagar. According to the security agencies, Shah was an admin of a secret WhatsApp group with members from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
