All-Parties Hurriyat Conference chairman Abdul Gani Bhat has admitted to knowing Anjum Zamruda Hamid, the alleged money courier caught outside the Pakistan high commission in New Delhi on February 6 with Rs 3.07 lakh in her possession.
Zamruda Hamid allegedly received the money from Pakistan's then deputy high commissioner, Zalil Abbas Jilani.
During her interrogation, she told the police that the cash was meant to be passed on to Bhat in Srinagar.
"The police team that interrogated Bhat at his residence in Srinagar has just returned to the capital," a senior Delhi police officer told rediff.com "Bhat told the investigating officer that he knew Zamruda Hamid."
Sources, however, said Bhat denied that the money the courier was carrying was meant for him. "I had not sent her to the Pakistan high commission to collect money," he reportedly told his interrogators.
Another round of questioning for Bhat is not being ruled out.
Bhat admitted that the APHC received large sums of money from various sources for running its operations. According to the Delhi police, APHC leaders receive several crores of rupees annually from Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence to fund terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir, a charge the Hurriyat Conference denies.