Overview
- DGP Nalin Prabhat issued the Section 25 UAPA order on November 12 to attach a two-storey house with land in Bulbul Bagh, Barzulla, Srinagar.
- The action is tied to FIR No. 157/2009 at PS Shaheed Gunj invoking RPC sections 120, 120-B, 121, 153-A and UAPA sections 13, 38, 39.
- Police classified the property as “proceeds of terrorism” under Section 2(g) after stating it was used to conceal incriminatory material and further terrorist activities.
- A court-warranted search recovered banned literature, a Hizbul Mujahideen letterhead and seal impressions, an English press note, and a letter from Syed Salahuddin to then US President Bill Clinton.
- Qayoom remains in custody in the 2020 murder of lawyer Babar Qadri, following an SIA arrest in June 2024 and a supplementary chargesheet filed in December 2024.