Court relief: CBI drops attempt-to-murder charge; eight J&K cops granted bail

SRINAGAR: A tribunal successful northbound Kashmir’s Kupwara granted Tuesday bail to 8 policemen, including a DSP, accused of illegally holding and torturing a chap J&K constable for six days successful Feb 2023.

The bid came aft CBI dropped attempt-to-murder complaint against the accused.The lawsuit stems from a CBI FIR registered connected July 26 this twelvemonth connected directions of the Supreme Court, which took cognizance of allegations that constable Khursheed Ahmed Chowhan was unlawfully held astatine the associated interrogation centre successful Kupwara from Feb 20 to Feb 26 and subjected to terrible maltreatment “on the pretext of investigating narcotics-related offences”.Chowhan’s woman Rubeena Akhter had moved the apical tribunal aft J&K precocious tribunal declined to bid registration of a case. Her petition alleged her hubby was beaten with robust rods and woody sticks, fixed electrical shocks and near critically wounded, with claims of mutilation, grievous harm to backstage parts, insertion of robust rods and chili pulverization allegedly forced into his rectum.Acting connected the Supreme Court’s July 21 order, CBI filed a chargesheet connected Oct 22 this year.

On Tuesday, the main territory and sessions justice of Kupwara directed the superintendent of Humhama subsidiary jailhouse successful Srinagar to merchandise the accused aft they furnish bail and surety bonds of Rs 1 lakh each.Advocate Ahrar Dar, appearing for the accused, said the location section had not granted mandatory authorisation to prosecute astatine the clip of filing the chargesheet. He said a “crucial and worldly alteration of circumstance” occurred aft investigators dropped the astir superior counts — IPC sections 307 (attempt to murder) and 326 (grievous wounded by unsafe weapons).“The ineligible impediment of conception 307, which was the cornerstone of the erstwhile bail rejection, nary longer exists,” Dar said, adding that the lawsuit present rests connected little terrible charges wrong the court’s bail jurisdiction. He said CBI opposed bail but the tribunal granted alleviation aft proceeding arguments.