New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has busted a terror funding module from the national capital, which was responsible for collecting money from abroad and taking it to Delhi to fund terror activities.

According to the NIA, the module of Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF), involved in funding terrorists, has been busted in pockets of Delhi like Daryaganj, Nizamuddin and Kucha Ghasiram.

According to the agency, a case was registered in July after the law enforcers were tipped off about some Delhi-based individuals who were receiving funds from FIF operatives based abroad and using the same to further the terror activities.

“During the investigation, it emerged that one Mohammad Salman, a resident of Nizamuddin, was in regular touch with one Dubai-based Pakistani national who, in turn, was connected with the deputy chief of Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation, a front-end organisation of proscribed terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). The accused has been receiving funds sent by FIF operators and his associates through Hawala operators,” the NIA said.

“The accused, along with other persons in various countries including Pakistan, UAE etc, are sending money through Hawala to India to further their nefarious activities and create unrest in India and carry out the terrorist activities,” the NIA added.

According to the agency, the FIF is a Lahore-based organisation of Pakistan established by Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the alias of Lashkar-e-Toiba. It is a front-end outfit of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), a terror organisation banned under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). “It was founded in 1990 by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who is designated as a global terrorist by the US. The FIF is placed on the list of terrorist organisations as per entry 33 in the First Schedule of the UAPA read with the Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism (Implementation of Security Council Resolutions) Order 2016. Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation was designated as a terrorist entity by the US in 2010, too,” the NIA told the media.

The NIA informed that it had seized from the accused — Mohammad Salman, Mohammad Salim and Sajjad Abdul Wani — a total of Rs 1.56 crore in cash, Rs 43,000 in Nepali currency, 14 mobiles phones, five pen drives and several incriminating documents.