Separatist leader Shabir Shah in ED custody

NEW DELHI: Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah was on Wednesday sent to seven-day Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody by a Delhi court in a decade-old case of money laundering for alleged terror financing.

Additional sessions judge Sidharth Sharma allowed the custodial interrogation of Shah, who was arrested on Tuesday, by the ED after the agency told the court that he was not cooperating with the investigators.

The ED had issued multiple summons to Shah, but he never deposed before the central probe agency. A Delhi court had earlier this month issued a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against the separatist leader.

The agency had been issuing to Shah summons earlier too in pursuance of the August 2005 case in which the Delhi Police’s special cell had arrested Mohammed Aslam Wani, 35, an alleged hawala dealer.According to the police, Wani had claimed that he had given ₹2.25 crore to Shah.