NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a supplementary charge sheet before a Delhi court on Friday against JKLF chief Yasin Malik and four other Kashmiri separatists for allegedly conspiring to wage a war against the central government by carrying out terrorist and secessionist activities.

The charge sheet, running into 3,000 pages, claimed that Pakistan high commission supported the separatists through transfer of funds via financial conduits to create unrest in the Valley.

The NIA claimed incriminating chats and emails were recovered from the email accounts of Malik and Shabir Shah which showed details of receipt of funds from Pakistan and other countries. “It has also been found that Yasin Malik has been getting funds from foreign countries through hawala channels for causing unrest and insurgency in Kashmir. Role of Pakistan high commission in supporting the separatist and other networks through transfer of funds via financial conduits and in providing directions to continue the unrest in the Kashmir Valley has also been clearly established,” it said.

Besides Malik, the agency has named banned Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief Asiya Andrabi; J&K Democratic Freedom Party founder Shabir Shah; J&K Muslim League chairman Masarat Alam and Abdul Rashid Sheikh, ex-MLA and chairman of Awami Ittehad Party, as accused.

The NIA claimed the five accused hatched a conspiracy by collaborating with each other to “form various protest calendars and action plan in order to launch violent agitation”, systematic Bandhs and large-scale economic shut-down in order to cripple the administrative machinery and to create disaffection towards the administration.

“Hurriyat leaders, terrorists and stone-pelters are carrying out terrorist attacks and orchestrating violence, stone-pelting and other subversive and secessionist activities in Jammu and Kashmir as part of a well-planned criminal conspiracy hatched with the active support, connivance and funding from Pakistani agencies and terrorist organisations to achieve their nefarious objective of securing secession of J&K from India,” the charge sheet claimed.

The agency claimed to have gathered evidence against Masarat Alam. It said investigations had established the nexus of Asiya Andrabi with different militant and terrorist organisations and with Hawala conduit Zahoor Watali.

The NIA claimed to have recovered text messages, chats, e-mails, WhatsApp logs and videos that allegedly indicated the nexus between those chargesheeted earlier and the five accused. “In the videos, they are seen exhorting the general public for illegal acts, sympathising with militants and seeking direct support from Pakistan,” the agency claimed.

The NIA had registered the case on May 30, 2017, and filed its first charge sheet against 12 accused, including Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, on January 18, 2018. It filed its first supplementary chargesheet on January 22 against one person who was the conduit for financial transactions by the separatists.