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interrogation, the present accused has revealed that he born in the year 1978 in his

above mentioned village in Shrinagar, J&K. His father was doing the business of

~ieep-leather in the name & style of 'Kawa & Sons', and after the death of his father
in the year 1992, he and his brother Niyaz Ahmad Kawa is doing this business. One of

his sister is married with one Farooq Ahmed Qasid r/o Srinagar, who was also doing
the same business of sheep-leather, with his father Nazir Ahmed Qasid. He also

revealed that the father of his brother-in-law Gija) Farooq Ahmad Qasid, namely

Nazir Ahmed Qasid was an active OGW of the banned terrorist organization Lashkar-
e-Toiba (LeT) and was in direct contact with militant Abu Bilal, who was the District

Commander of Let in Srinagar, J&K. Subsequently, his brother-in-law (Jija) Farooq

Ahmead Qasid, also started working for this terrorist organization with this father
Nazir Ahmed Qasid and used to provide logistics/funds to the militants of LeT in

Jammu & Kashmir. During his interrogation, the present accused Bilal Ahmad Kawa,

also admitted that he was having a saving bank account bearing no. 28552609, in the
Standard Grindlays Bank Ltd., Srinagar, J&K. At that time, the Grindlays Bank Ltd.

was the only bank which provides the facilities of deposit and withdrawal of cash in
(and from) any branch in India. As such, for transferring the terrorist funds, he

allowed to use his above bank facilities and gave his bank account number to his

above mentioned relatives/co-accused. Farooq Ahmed Qasid and Nazir Ahmed Qasid,
In his same bank account, the co-accused and main conspirator of Red Fort attack

Mohd. Arif@ Ashfaq had deposited Rs. 10 lakhs in three installments from Delhi in

the month of July 2000. Subsequently, he withdrawn this amount in Sri Nagar, J&K
through bearer cheques and handed over the same to Farooq Ahmed Qasid and Nazir

Ahmed Qasid, which was further used for the terrorist activities in J&K. For this

purpose, he also got opened the bank accounts of Farooq Ahmed Qasid and his
company M/s Nazir & Sons, in the Standard Grindlays Bank Ltd., during the month

of July/ August 2000, by giving his introductions in the bank. During the year 200 I,
on the arrest of co-accused Farooq Ahmed Qasid and Nazir Ahmed Qasid, in the

present case, the present accused Bilal Ahmed Kawa became underground, as he

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