THE bonhomie between Hurriyat leaders and their masters in Pakistan was highlighted on Thursday in a chargesheet filed by J&K police’s SIA against nine people, mostly separatists, for allegedly selling MBBS seats in the neighbouring nation to Kashmiri students and using the money to spread unrest in the Union Territory, officials said. The Special Investigation Agency (SIA), a newly carved-out unit of Jammu and Kashmir Police, submitted the chargesheet in a special court here against the nine, including Mohammed Akbar Bhat alias Zaffar Bhat, a constituent of the Hurriyat Conference. It said that during investigation it surfaced the accused were affiliated with Hurriyat chapter of Kashmir and Pakistan and were illegally making money under a planned conspiracy.

 

The case was registered in July last year after receiving information through reliable sources that several unscrupulous people, including some Hurriyat leaders, were hand in glove with educational consultancies and were selling seats of MBBS and other courses in Pakistani colleges and universities. Besides Bhat, who is the chairman of Salvation Movement, a constituent of moderate Hurriyat Conference, the chargesheet named his brother Altaf Ahmad Bhat along with others.