MUMBAI – A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in India has ordered the attachment of five properties belonging to Islamic scholar – Zakir Naik – in connection with the alleged unlawful activities of his banned NGO, Islamic Research Foundation in 2016.
The properties – four flats and a commercial establishment in Mumbai – attached by National Investigation Agency belong to the 52-year-old televangelist, reported Times of India.
The NIA application seeking permission to attach the properties owned by Naik was allowed on Thursday by the special court.
The court accepted the plea after the NIA submitted that Naik, staying overseas, was trying to sell these properties since his funding from various sources has been stopped after the central agency filed a case against him.
In November 2016, the central government had declared Naik’s Mumbai-based Islamic Research Foundation as an “unlawful” association under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
