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| GOVERNMENT WORRIED OVER POSSIBILITY OF TRANSFER OF SEX SCAM TRIAL OUT OF KASHMIR | | | Srinagar, July 4 :- The ruling coalition seems to be a worried lot.The reason this time is totally different.
The state Government is worried over the blanket ban having been issued by the Kashmir Bar Association on lawyers intending to defend the cases of those arrested in connection with the sex scam that rocked the valley in recent weeks.
The Deputy Chief Minister,Mr Muzaffar Hussain Baig,who holds the portfolio of Law also,has requested the Kashmir Bar to lift the ban because Mr Baig has fears that if those involved in the sex scandal did not get a lawyer to plead their cases the trial could be transferred to either Jammu or to any place outside the state.
Already the State High Court has received an application from a relation of a senior bureaucrat who is in detention in which he has pleaded for court intervention so that the accused could get the legal aid and fair trial.
The Jammu Bar Association is up in arms and for the last seven days its members or on indefinite strike demanding transfer of the cases too Jammu or to any area outside the state so that the accused could get a fair trial.The Bar members do not want those allegedly accused in the scam get punishment without being heard or without any legal aid.
Besides fears on this count the state Government,the CBI and the courts are in a state of confusion over the circulation of reports that more than 200 people were involved in the sex scam.So far 15 people have been arrested and summons have been issued against three more persons who are still absconding.
One thing is definite. If the list of accused keeps on increasing andthe two Bar Associations in the state remain in a state of confrontation one may not expect speedy trial.Another certain thing is that once those arrested were awarded any punishment they would file an appeal first in the High court and then in the supreme court thereby taking years for the curtain to be lifted over the scam.
one report said that Chief Minister,Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad,has again postponed the cabinet expansion because he is waiting for the course the sex scam trial will adopt.He does not want to include those legislators in the council of ministers who were later found to have been involved in the sex scam.He wants the dust to settle first.
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