Delhi HC refuses bail to UAE businessman

The Delhi high court has denied bail to Dubai-based businessman Naval Kishore Kapoor, booked under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, or UAPA, in a 2017 terror funding case involving separatist leader and chief of banned Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Yasin Malik.

- Shruti Kakkar

NEW DELHI:

A bench of justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur in its order on Wednesday said there was sufficient material to prima facie establish that Kapoor aided and assisted another accused, Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali, in bringing foreign money into India for furthering secessionist and terrorist activities in the Kashmir Valley.

"Sufficient material is available to prima facie point towards involvement of the appellant that he, along with accused number 10 (Watali), aided and abetted the flow of funds from fake and bogus companies floated in UAE to channelise the same to secessionists and separatists in Kashmir valley," the bench said.