New Delhi, June 4 (TIWN) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has brought separatist leader and alleged ringleader of stone pelting in Jammu and Kashmir, Masrat Alam Bhat, from a state prison to Delhi to question him in connection with a terror funding case.

“ED and NIA investigations have unearthed financial links. The two will be questioned in connection with the terror funding case registered by NIA,” Union home ministry officials said. 

NIA had filed an FIR on May 30, 2017, against the separatists, including unknown members of the Hurriyat Conference. They were charged with conniving with terrorists of proscribed organisations such as Hizbul Mujahideen, Dukhtaran-e-Millat and Lashkar-e-Taiba.