Srinagar: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday raided a number of locations together with the homes of Hurriyat chief Qazi Yasir and Jammu and Kashmir Salvation Movement chairman Zaffar Bhat in a case linked to the allotment of MBBS seats in Pakistan. Sources advised Zee News that the central probe company together with native police as we speak morning raided the home of Mohammad Akbar Bhat alias Zaffar Bhat, who’s the chairman of J&Okay Salvation Movement, within the Bagh-e-Mehtab space of Srinagar and is presently in jail. They stated one other crew of the central probe company additionally raided the home of Hurriyat chief Qazi Yasir within the Qazi Mohalla space of Anantnag as we speak morning.
“A team also is carrying out raids at the house of one Syed Khalid Geelani in Baghat area of Srinagar,” sources stated and added the raids at these locations had been carried out to collect additional particulars concerning the MBBS seats rip-off.
The officers stated raids are being carried out in reference to the case of allotting MBBS seats and different skilled admissions of J&Okay residents in numerous faculties in Pakistan.
The FIR towards the accused was registered on July 27, 2020, for allegedly being hand-in-glove with some academic consultancies for arranging admission of J&Okay residents in MBBS and different skilled programs in varied faculties and e universities in Pakistan.
The investigating businesses discovered in the course of the investigation that a large amount of cash was acquired from the mother and father of the scholars in lieu of such admissions and the cash earned was allegedly utilized in supporting terrorism in J&Okay.
On August of 18th 2021 The Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) wing of the J&Okay Police arrested six individuals together with separatist chief Zafar Akbar Bhat and a girl from north Kashmir’s Baramulla in a case registered in July final yr in reference to the alleged racket of promoting Pakistan-based MBBS seats and of different skilled programs by Hurriyat leaders and utilizing a part of the cash generated for militancy.
Police then stated that greater than 80 instances pertaining to the seats in educational years between 2014-18, had been studied by which both the scholars or their mother and father had been examined. Besides, searches of a couple of dozen premises within the valley had been undertaken to search for proof of the gathering of cash and its additional utilization.
“Analysis of digital data and paper receipts in addition to data pertaining to financial institution transactions revealed {that a} sizeable portion of the collected cash was stored apart for private use. Evidence additionally got here on report to indicate that cash had been variously put into channels that ended up supporting programmes and tasks pertaining to terrorism and separatism.
Police additionally stated that the time that investigation has revealed that on common the price of a seat ranged between 10 to 12 lakhs. “In some cases, the price was brought down on the recommendation of those leaders.”
“On the basis of the available evidence, a conservative estimate indicated that the money involved could be around Rs. 4 crores per annum, on the basis of the fact that allocation of seats for distribution by individual those leaders were around 40 seats for MBBS programme every year.
