SRINAGAR: The Enforcement Directorate has reissued a notice to separatist Hurriyat patriarch Syed Ali Shah Geelani for a penalty of Rs 14.4 lakh in a 19-year-old case relating to allegedly illegal possession of $10,000.
Geelani, 93, had been first issued a penalty notice on March 20, 2019, based on a case lodged against him after the income-tax department seized $10,000 from his house in Srinagar's Hyderpora in 2002. He allegedly ignored the notice from the ED under the Foreign Exchange Management Act.
Enforcement officer Asif Iqbal said in the second notice, issued on Tuesday, that Geelani could either pay the penalty within 10 days or produce a stay order, if he had acquired one from any court or tribunal.
