NIA attaches several properties in J-K’s Pulwama

Srinagar: The NIA on Tuesday attached several properties in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir under the anti-terror law, officials said.

The immovable properties were attached under the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) on the orders of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) special court in Jammu, they said.

The NIA has so far attached two landed properties (orchards) measuring nearly 20,000 square feet in Kakapora tehsil of the district, they said.

Continuing with crackdown on terror elements, immovable property (one kanal and 15 marlas of orchard land) situated at Noorpora, in the south Kashmir district, of terror handler Feroz Ganie has been attached, a police spokesman said.

The order of the court of Additional Sessions Pulwama (National Investigation Agency court) was executed by the revenue authorities along with police and village representatives, he said.

Ganie, involved in a case registered under various sections Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Indian Arms Act, was declared a proclaimed offender by the special NIA court in Pulwama earlier after he failed to appear before the investigating agency, the spokesman said.

PTI