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Shopian Case: J and K High Court grants bail to four cops | The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Friday granted bail to four policemen who were accused of having a role in the controversial Shopian murder case. The policemen -- Former Superintendent of Police of Shopian Javed Iqbal
Mattoo, Deputy Superintendent of Police Rohit Baskota, Station House Officer Shopian
Shafiq Ahmed and Sub-inspector Gazi Abdul Rehman -- were released on payment of
a bond of Rs.50, 000 each. The four had been accused of destroying evidence related
to the case. Last month, the Jammu and Kashmir Government had decided to hand
over the controversial rape and murder case involving two women to the Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The State Cabinet unanimously took the decision
hours after opposition parties created an uproar in the State Assembly alleging
tampering of DNA test reports in the case. Friday's granting of bail came almost
a month after the same court rejected an earlier bail plea. The court had then
rejected their plea under the Section 497 of CRPC (discretionary powers of the
judge to grant bail or not). The four had also moved a petition in the Supreme
Court against the ruling of J and K High Court, to arrest these officers and also
to collect blood samples to prepare the DNA mapping of these officers. An apex
court bench headed by the Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan had asked the Shopian
sessions court to expeditiously consider the bail pleas. During the hearing, the
bench had said the High Court should have left it to the superior police officers
to investigate the case and should have entitled the police officers to move for
bail before the appropriate court. The bench had also expressed surprise that
only because of agitation the investigation was handed over to the Special Investigation
Team (SIT). The J and K High Court, hearing a Public Interest Litigation Petition
(PIL) filed by J and K High Court Bar Association in connection with alleged rape
and murder of Neelofar and Aasiya Jan in Shopian ordered for the arrest of four
police officers who were suspended in the same the case. The court also ordered
to constitute SIT and DNA mapping of these officers. |
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