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| Srinagar Sex Scandal | | Another witness turns hostile | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 18: The infamous Srinagar sex scandal case took another turn today when one of the key female witnesses turned hostile in the lower court in Chandigarh where hearing of the case is going on.
Sources said that the female witness denied of having ever met or known, the then Principal Secretary to Chief Minister and presently, Principal Secretary (Planning) Iqbal Khanday. They added that she in her statement accused India's premier investigating agency, CBI, of forcing her to give a statement against Khanday.
Sources further affirmed that the female has given clean chit to Khanday and leveled serious allegations on CBI. They said that she has gone to the extent of accusing CBI of threatening her of dire consequences and there after, forcing her to sign some blank papers. "I was forced to sign blank paper," she has allegedly said.
Sources maintained that the female has informed the court about the constant pressure put on her by CBI to get statement recorded against Khanday. She is second witness to turn hostile in the last two days of hearing of the case in the lower court. In earlier instance, another witness had given clean chit to former Minister Raman Mattoo.
She too had said that CBI had forced her to give statement against Mattoo, alleging that Mattoo had raped her. The lady had then accused Mattoo of exploiting her sexually. In her statement to lower court in Chandigarh, she has denied of ever meeting Mattoo or knowing him personally.
The case has seen witnesses turning hostile on daily basis and giving clean to the individuals they had accused of having raped or sexually assaulted them. It needs to be mentioned here that the case was shifted to Chandigarh on the directions of Supreme Court of India, following several applications and petitions filed by the accused, citing threat to their life if the case is tried in any court in Kashmir valley. |
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