HC dismisses accused's plea against supplementary chargesheet in terror-funding case

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea moved by a UAE-based businessman challenging a supplementary chargesheet filed against him by the NIA in a terror-funding case.

A bench of justices Manmohan and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal said it was of the considered view that the trial court's order taking cognisance of the supplementary chargesheet was "within the realm of law and does not warrant any interference".

The high court dismissed the appeal of businessman Naval Kishore Kapoor, who is lodged in Tihar Jail since last year after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested him in the terror-funding case.

The bench said the argument of Kapoor's counsel that the trial court had erroneously and wrongly taken cognisance against him as no fresh material was produced by the investigating agency in the supplementary chargesheet, implicating him in the alleged conspiracy, was without force.

It said, "...there is sufficient material available on record, which prima facie points towards the involvement of the appellant (Kapoor) that he, along with accused no. 10 (Zahood Ahmad Shah Watali), aided and abetted the flow of funds from fake and bogus companies floated in the UAE and channelised the same to the secessionists and separatists in Kashmir Valley."