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Wani was granted bail by Delhi high court in January 2019 and Shabir Ahmad Shah is still in judicial custody. Earlier, in his statements before the Delhi Police, which was also part of the latter’s chargesheet, Wani had said that “Shabir Shah was directing hawala operators from Pakistan to deliver money to him in Delhi.” Wani had also claimed that he had delivered more than ?2 crore to Shah over a period of time before Delhi Police arrested him and recovered the cash along with 5kg explosives, one pistol and 15 live cartridges.On occasions when Shah was not available, the cash consignment was delivered to his wife Dr Bilquies Shah in Srinagar, Wani told ED. NEW DELHI: Sending out a signal to Kashmiri separatists that assets of close relatives will also be confiscated if associated with terror funds, the Enforcement Directorate on Friday attached a property registered in the name of wife and daughter of separatist Shabir Ahmed Shahin Srinagar’s Effandi Bagh.Shah, who was arrested in 2017 in a money laundering case for alleged receipt of hawala money from Pakistan terror outfits, is currently in jail.The agency has claimed that this Effandi Bagh property actually belonged to Shah who had acquired it using terror funds received from Pakistan through his hawala carrier Aslam Wani, an activist of banned terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammmad.Wani was first arrested in 2005 along with ?63 lakh which he claimed was to be delivered to Shah in Srinagar..