Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 29: A day after the special Delhi Court ordered the attachment of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) office in Srinagar, the sleuths of National Investigation Agency (NIA), Sunday attached the Hurriyat office.
"The NIA team arrived at Rajbagh and attached the Hurriyat office," officials said.
An attachment board hanged on the wall of the building stating that ?this is to inform all members of the public that the building where the office of All Party Hurriyat Conference is located at Rajbagh, which is owned jointly by Nayeem Ahmad Khan, who is presently facing trial in case Rc-10/2017NIA/DLI in the NIA court Delhi, has been attached by the court order dated January 27, 2023 by Special NIA court, Patiala House New Delhi?.
Earlier, on Saturday in an order, Shaliender Malik, additional sessions judge, special court New Delhi had ordered that the immovable property including building office of All Parties Hurriyat Conference be attached.
The Court had said the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act-1967 does not in any manner hinder powers of court to attach any such property of which accused is facing trial under the UAPA of which he may be partly owner.
The court, however, had added that the attachment in itself does not mean that there is any pre-trial conclusion regarding that property.
The Court further said among the different allegations and evidence, it was also the case that office of APHC was the place where meetings were held to strategise different protests, funding activities of stone pelting on security forces, recruiting of unemployed youths to carry out unlawful activities as well as terrorist activities to create an unrest in the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir to wage war against the Government of India.
In such a situation taking into consideration the serious nature of the allegations as against A-5 itself, the fact that he is part owner of the property in question, cannot be a reason for not attaching the property when it is not even made clear as to who others were co-owners of that property, the court had said.
The NIA had moved an application seeking passing of an order for attachment of building office of All Parties Hurriyat Conference situated at Raj Bagh, Srinagar. |
