NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency may have to end a "watertight" case against the Hurriyat brass in the J&K terror funding case, with five accused and witnesses recording statements under Section 164 of Criminal Procedure Code — which is allowable as evidence in court — featuring the transfer of funds sourced from Pakistan to top leaders of the nationalist outfit.

Added to this is documentary proof seized during NIA raids on the premises of one of the arrested persons, recording payments made by the Kashmiri conduit to the who's who of Hurriyat, from funds received from Pakistan-based sources via the hawala route.

NIA has got one of the arrested persons, a close supporter of a top Hurriyat leader, as well as four others to record statements before a magistrate reveal the role of Hurriyat leaders in passing on terror funds received from Pakistan, including through conduits based at its high commission in Delhi, to agitator in the Valley.

A source said the statements recorded under Section 164 as well as documentary evidence unruffled by the NIA during the course of the inquiry could nail the role of Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani, moderate Hurriyat chief Mirwaiz Umer Farooq as well as JKLF boss Yasin Malik in funding violent protests in J&K at the behest of Pakistan-based instigator.

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