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Jammu and Kashmir independent MLA Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Rashid Engineer, has been summoned by the NIA for questioning in a case related to funding of terror activities in the Valley.
Officials in Srinagar said, Rashid, MLA from Lagate in North Kashmir has been called for questioning on 3rd October. He is the first mainstream politician to be summoned by the National Investigation Agency in the case.
His name had cropped up during the interrogation of businessman Zahoor Watali, who was arrested by the NIA for allegedly supplying money to terror groups and separatists in the Valley.
The NIA had registered a case on 30th of May against separatist and secessionist leaders who have allegedly been conniving with active militants of proscribed terrorist organisations including Hizbul Mujahideen, Dukhtaran-e-Millat and Lashkar-e-Taiba.