Srinagar, April 18 — Separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah was remanded to 10-day custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) by a special court in Jammu on Saturday in connection with a 1996 case linked to an attack on policemen during a militant’s funeral, officials said.
Shah, 72, was arrested by the NIA’s Srinagar branch on April 17 and produced before the Patiala House Court in Delhi, which granted a three-day transit remand. He was subsequently brought to Jammu and presented before the special NIA court, where the agency sought custodial interrogation.
“After hearing the submissions, the court sent him to 10-day NIA remand,” officials said, allowing investigators to question him in the three-decade-old case.
The case pertains to an incident in 1996 involving an attack on policemen during a funeral procession of a militant.
Shah had recently been released on bail after nearly seven years in custody in separate cases. He was granted bail by the Supreme Court on March 12 in a militancy-funding case, and by a Delhi court on March 28 in a money laundering case.
