SMS, WhatsApp chats hint at nexus in terror funding case: NIA
India TV NewsSMS and WhatsApp chat records recovered during probe reveal the nexus between the accused, the National Investigation Agency said in its charge sheet filed on Friday in connection with the terror funding case involving separatist leader Yasin Malik and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed. "There was the recovery of various SMSs, e-mails, WhatsApp chats and videos clearly indicating the nexus between the already charge-sheeted accused and the above five accused persons," the agency said in a press statement. The charge sheet, running into 200 pages, named Malik as well as the founder and President of the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party, Shabir Shah, Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief Asiya Andrabi, All Party Hurriyat Conference General Secretary Masarat Alam and Rashid Engineer. In its first charge sheet filed last year, the agency named Geelani's son-in-law Altaf Fantosh, Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Ahmed Shah Watali, Naeem Khan, Raja Mehrajudin Kalwal, Bashir Ahmed Bhat alias Peer Saifullah, Aftab Hilali Shah alias Shahid ul Islam, Farooq Ahmed Dar alias Bitta Karate, Mohammad Akbar Khandey alias Ayaz Akbar and Javed Ahmed Bhat, among others.