The NIA found that Salman contributed Rs 70 lakh, received from Saeed's outfit, to the building of Khulafa-e-Rashideen mosque in Haryana.

Mohammad Salman, who was arrested for allegedly being involved in a terror funding module, led by Pakistan-based terrorist Hafiz Saeed's Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF), in Delhi, has travelled to Pakistan several times.

Sources from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) told India Today TV that Salman, accused of receiving funds from Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF) operatives based abroad and using it for terror activities, had travelled to Islamabad thrice and had been in regular touch with Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives.

Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation is a Lahore-based organisation established by Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD). It was founded in 1990 by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who is designated as global terrorist by the UN.



The NIA also found that Salman contributed Rs 70 lakh, received from Mumbai attack mastermind Saeed's outfit, to the building of Khulafa-e-Rashideen mosque in Haryana's Palwal. The construction of the Palwal mosque was earlier investigated by the NIA which said it was built by funds contributed by Saeed's LeT outfit.

Earlier in September, the NIA had busted a terror funding module in Delhi led by Saeed's foundation. The NIA carried out search raids based on an FIR to probe the terror funding module registered by the agency in July this year. According to the FIR, some Delhi-based individuals were receiving funds from FIF operatives from abroad and using it for terror activities.

During investigation, it emerged that Salman, a resident of the Nizamuddin area in New Delhi, was in regular touch with a Dubai-based Pakistani national, who in turn is connected to the deputy chief of the Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation, a front organisation of the proscribed terror group LeT.

The NIA on September 25 conducted searches at the premises of Salman in Nizamuddin, Daryaganj-resident Mohd Salim (hawala operator) and Rajaram in Kucha Ghasiram in New Delhi and seized Rs 1.56 crore in cash, Rs 43,000 in Nepali currency, 14 mobiles phones, five pen drives and several incriminating documents, it said.

Following the seizure of incriminating material, the NIA arrested Delhi FIF operative Salman, and Hawala operators Mohd Salim alias Mama (62) and Sajjad Abdul Wani (34), a resident of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir.

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