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Get SIT reports from revisional court: HC to BA Jalil Andrabi killing 9/2/2014 12:06:43 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Sept 1 : A Division Bench of Jammu and Kashmir High Court has asked Kashmir High Court Bar Association to file appropriate application before revisional court for seeking certified copies of the investigation reports filed by SIT in connection with the killing of noted lawyer Jalil Andrabi in 1996. The division bench comprising Chief Justice M M Kumar and Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar passed the order while hearing an application filed by KHCBA, seeking direction for issuance of certified copies of reports filed by the Special Investigation team (SIT) in the petition registered as HC(P) no. 32/1996. According to advocate Z A Qureshi, the certified copies of the reports up to 22.08 1996 have already been furnished but the subsequent reports have not been given. Qureshi, representing the applicant, said that all those subsequent reports would be necessary for substantiating the challenge made to the closure report passed the trial Court in December 2012. It is appropriate to mention that the trial court while prosecuting case FIR no. 139/1996 titled as State v Major Avtar Singh has passed a closure report on the ground that the accused, Major Avtar Singh, has died. Qureshi submitted that the investigation reports filed before High Court in HC(P) no. 1996 after 22.08 1998 would be necessary to substantiate that Major Avtar Singh was not the only suspect to kill Jalil Andrabi but there are others. He asserted that the copies of the reports filed after 22.08.1996 would be required to assist Revisional Court hearing Revision Petition no.1/2014. "We have summoned the record and have perused the same. We have also heard the arguments of learned counsel for the parties and are of the view that it would be appropriate for the applicant to file the application before the revisional court because it is the revisional court which, while hearing the revision petition, would in a position to make up its mind whether copies of the investigation reports filed by the Special Investigation Team are necessary to be supplied," the bench said and disposed of the application. On December 31, the CJM Srinagar had closed the case against Major Avtar Singh after the Crime Branch submitted death certificate of the accused. Major Avtar Singh killed himself along with his family members this year in California on June 9. He was accused of kidnapping and killing prominent lawyer Jaleel Andrabi in 1996. The 47-year-old Singh had fled to the United States after he was accused of killing Andrabi, whose body was found floating in river Jhelum in March 1996. Andrabi, in his late thirties, was allegedly detained by a unit of Rashtriya Rifles led by Major Singh and his body was found a day later. A murder case was registered against Avtar Singh and others after the victim's family pursued the matter in the High Court and alleged that the Government was covering up the murder.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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