Syed Ahmad Shakeel and Shahid Yusuf, sons of Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin whose services were recently terminated by Jammu & Kashmir government, had allegedly facilitated terror funding on six and nine occasions respectively while in government service, according to sources in the central investigation agencies. Both Shakeel, who was working at Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) and Shahid, a former employee of J&K agriculture department, were purportedly receiving terror funds from Aijaz Ahmad Bhat alias Aijaz Maqbool Bhat, an active Hizbul cadre and a close aide of Salahudin. Aijaz had crossed over to Pakistan in 1990 and is now responsible for collecting and transferring money to terror modules operating in J&K. The modus of Shakeel and Shahid, dismised from government service as part of an exercise to rid J&K administration of staffers with terror links, was similar both used multiple indentities to receive terror funds from many locations in Saudai Arabia, said a source. Even as PDP chief and former J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti had on Monday questioned the sacking of Salahuddin's sons asking how they could be presecuted for actions of their father without an inquiry, a source claimed the action under ARticle 311(2) was based on evidence of their active involvement of their active involvement in terror financing "that was in files even though the facts were suppressed and evidence buried by facourable regimes in the past. The Indore police website was hacked on Tuesday and objectionable content and 'Free Kashmir' slogans were posted there. The hackers left behind his signature on the hacked page as 'Muhammad Bilal Team PCE' a tag that has featured in previous hackings in the country, police said. It was seen in the hacking of the BJP Delhi unit's webside in November 2019, that of the Andhra University site in April 2018 and the BJP Goa unit the same year. This time the hackers posted pro-Pakistan message and objectionable content in the 'contact us'section of the Indore Police website.
