The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has summoned Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s grandson, Anees-ul-Islam Shah, at the agency’s headquarters at New Delhi on 29 April.
The development came after the NIA questioned top separatist Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in cases of alleged terror funding in Kashmir.
In a statement, Geelani said that the Government of India has “waged war against Kashmiris on every front”.
Geelani’s two sons have already been questioned by the NIA. Anees is son of incarcerated Hurriyat leader Altaf Shah (Fantosh).
Anees’s father was arrested in 2017 by NIA along with other Hurriyat leaders.
Anees came into limelight in 2016 when the Mehbooba Mufti led PDP-BJP coalition “bent” rules to recruit him in a government job in the tourism department at a hefty salary.
The state government had denied that rules were bent to recruit him on the post of research officer in the Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Complex (SKICC), a subsidiary of the state tourism department.
The NIA had recently accelerated investigation of the terror funding cases. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was earlier this month questioned for three days in New Delhi.
Another separatist, Yasin Malik, is in the custody of NIA in the national capital. Geelani and other separatists were demanding his transfer to Srinagar on health grounds.
Malik was on Wednesday sent to judicial custody till 24 May.
Another separatist, Shabir Shah, is in custody at New Delhi where the Enforcement Directorate was investigating cases of “hawala” money transfer.
Mehbooba Mufti had also opposed interrogation of separatists.
The Centre had last week suspended the cross-LoC trade with the Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (POJK) through two points in the state as the Confidence Building Measure (CBM) initiated in 2008 was found to have been captured by Pakistan-based terror organisations to fund terrorists and anti-India elements operating in Kashmir.
There were reports that money for stone-pelters was also coming through trade routes.
The authorities have from time to time seized huge consignments of narcotics, arms and ammunition besides fake Indian currency from trucks coming from across the LoC.