Court issues NBW against LeT operative for money laundering, terror funding

A Delhi court Tuesday issued a non-bailable warrant against an alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba operative accused of money laundering and acting as a terror financing conduit.

Special Judge Anuradha Shukla Bhardwaj passed the order against Mohammed Umer Madani, an operative of Pakistan-based proscribed terror group, after ED's special public prosecutor Nitesh Rana submitted that the accused had not responded to the summons issued against him by the court.

Rana said the summons sent to his residence in Madhubani, Bihar had returned and requested the court to issue the non-bailable warrant (NBW).

The NBWs are returnable by July 29, the next date of hearing in the case.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) recently filed a charge sheet through advocate A R Aditya under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

According to the agency, the ED took up the case on the basis of an FIR and charge sheet filed against Madani by the Special Cell of Delhi Police. The police arrested him in 2009 with fake Indian currency notes having a face value of