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A peculiar National Investigation Agency (NIA) tribunal successful Srinagar connected Tuesday (December 30, 2025) issued a proclamation announcement against 3 individuals, including erstwhile cross-Line of Control (LoC) commercialized body’s president Mubeen Ahmad Shah and known Kashmiri designer Tony Ashia, for “anti-national propaganda and secessionist misinformation”.
The proclamation was issued nether Section 82 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, against the accused persons successful FIR No. 07/2020 filed by the Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK), a peculiar compartment of the J&K Police, officials said.
The CIK said the lawsuit pertains to offences nether Sections 153-A and 505 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 13 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), “registered connected the ground of credible quality inputs revealing a well-orchestrated conspiracy by unscrupulous anti-social and anti-national elements operating astatine the behest of secessionist forces wrong and extracurricular the Valley.”
The CIK said pursuing the issuance of warrants of arrest, the accused persons went underground and were absconding to evade the process of law. “Taking superior enactment of their deliberate evasion, the Special NIA Court has present issued a proclamation nether Section 82 Cr.PC, directing the accused to look earlier the Hon’ble Court connected oregon earlier 31.01.2026. Failure to comply volition invitation stringent proceedings nether Section 83 Cr.PC, including attachment of property,” the CIK said.
According to the CIK, the probe has established the relation of Shah, a nonmigratory of Dock Wali Colony, Jawahar Nagar, Srinagar; Azizul Hassan Ashai alias Tony Ashai, a nonmigratory of Dock Wali Colony, Jawahar Nagar, Srinagar, and Rifat Wani, a nonmigratory of Trehgam, Kupwara, successful a conspiracy and related offences nether the registered case.
Shah is simply a salient businessman who besides served arsenic president of the Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industries (KCCI) and besides arsenic the president of the Joint Cross-LoC Chamber. Shah was arrested connected August 4, 2019, a time up of the Centre’s determination to revoke J&K’s peculiar status. He was aboriginal released by the tribunal successful December and shifted extracurricular India. Ashia is a California-based designer and has projects successful the United States, the Middle East and South Asia.
“Despite being declared absconders, the accused are notorious for their continued hostile activities and stay highly progressive connected societal media platforms, wherever they persist successful peddling false, fabricated and provocative contented with the volition of inciting large-scale unit and destabilizing nationalist bid successful the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir,” the CIK said.
The CIK said it remains firm successful its resoluteness “to enactment decisively against each elements indulging successful anti-national propaganda and integer subversion”. It warned against specified unlawful activities. “It volition beryllium dealt with strictly nether the law,” the CIK said.
