Rising Kashmir, Daily Newspaper, Srinagar Jammu and Kashmir - CBI submits 2 boxfuls of records to CJM
Ishfaq Tantry
Srinagar, Dec 15: A day after submitting its report on Shopian investigations before High Court, CBI Tuesday produced all the records pertaining to the case before Chief Judicial Magistrate, Srinagar. The court, however, adjourned the case without fixing next date of hearing.
On December 10, CBI had produced challan against 13 accused persons before CJM Srinagar, Mohammad Ibrahim. Accordingly, the CJM had listed the case for today (December 15) and directed CBI to produce the relevant records of the case in the court.
Complying with the Court orders, a CBI team comprising Chief Investigating officer Sanjay and CBI Counsel Advocate Anil Bhan produced all the records and evidence material of the case to the CJM court in “two sealed steel trunks”.
The material produced by the CBI includes case diaries, video evidence, clothes of deceased women and other incriminating material. Besides, the charge sheet, CBI also produced video evidence, photographs and other evidence material in the court.
Sources said CJM took the record and other evidence material under his possession. They said it will take the court long time to study and go through the material.
They said CJM later adjourned the case without fixing next date of hearing.
Talking to Rising Kashmir in Sadder Court Complex, CBI counsel Advocate Anil Bhan confirmed that the investigative agency submitted the records to CJM Srinagar in two sealed boxes.
In the 66 page charge sheet produced by CBI, the investigating agency has named 13 persons as accused. They include Dr. Nighat Shaheen, Dr. Ghulam Qadir Sofi, Dr. Mohammad Maqbool Mir, Dr. Ghulam Mohammad Paul,Dr. Bilal Ahmad Dalal, Dr. Nazia Hassan, Dr. Advocate Abdul Majid Mir, ( Shopian Bar President), Advocate Mushtaq Ahmad Gattoo ( Public prosecutor), Mohammad Yousuf Bhat, Advocate Mohammad Altaf, Advocate Sheikh Mubarak, Ali Mohammad Sheikh (civilian) and Zahoor Ahmad Ahangar ( brother of Shakeel Ahangar, husband of one of the victim Neelofar).
The 13 persons have been charged under section 120-B RPC, 167, 193, 194, 195 A RPC and substantive offences under section 167, 193, 194 and 195 A RPC.
The CBI presented its final report about the Shopian investigations before High Court on Monday. In the report, CBI had termed the Shopian case as a “drowning incident” and ruled out rape and murder of two women – Asiya and Neelofar.
The agency has based its conclusion on the opinion of the AIIMS Medical Board, which carried out the exhumation of the bodies of the victims on September 28.
The CBI report has charged the doctors and lawyers for ‘fabricating the evidence’.