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| J&K sex scam case reaches Chandigarh court | | |
CHANDIGARH: All files pertaining to the infamous Srinagar sex scandal case involving politicians and bureaucrats have reached the district and sessions court for trial.
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer from Jammu brought the entire material pertaining to the case on Thursday. All the accused are also likely to be brought by Saturday.
The sex scandal exposed the bureaucrat-politician-criminal nexus in the strife-torn state where young girls were forced into prostitution by a well-organised network after making porn films on them.
Those arrested include the main accused Sabeena, former state ministers Ghulam Hassan Mir and Raman Mattoo, suspended Border Security Force (BSF) officer KC Pandhi, suspended police officer Mohammed Ashraf Mir and hotel owner Riyaz Ahmed.
The trial is likely to be conducted by an additional district and sessions judge, whose name is yet to be assigned by the district court.
The case was transferred to the Chandigarh court last week after the bar association in Jammu and Kashmir expressed its unwillingness to defend the accused.
There was a public outcry against the sexual exploitation of young girls by politicians, officials, policemen and pimps.
The Supreme Court expressed its displeasure to the Jammu and Kashmir Bar association saying that even if the accused were at fault they had every right to be defended.
The bar association refused to budge from its stand, forcing the apex court to transfer the case to Chandigarh for a fair trial. Local lawyers here said they had no problem in defending the accused.
Police and prison authorities here were also making arrangements for the lodging of over a dozen accused in the case. They are likely to be put up in the high-security Burail prison.
The other accused who will be brought here are Sabeena's husband Abdul Hamid Shabir, Shabir Kala, a middleman, and bureaucrat Iqbal Khandey, who was recently granted bail on health grounds.
The trial in this case could begin on Saturday or early next week, district court sources said. |
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