A local lower court denied bail to former J&K Minister and sitting legislator Ghulam Ahmed Mir and senior IAS officer Mohammad Iqbal Khanday in the sex scam case.
SRINAGAR: A local lower court on Friday denied bail to former Jammu and Kashmir Minister and sitting legislator Ghulam Ahmed Mir and senior IAS officer Mohammad Iqbal Khanday, arrested by the CBI in connection with the sex racket case.
Passing the orders, Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), Srinagar Mohammad Yousuf Akhoon rejected the bail application of Mir and Khanday on the ground that they had committed henious crime.
The bail plea of another former Minister and sitting legislator Raman Mattoo will come up for the hearing on Monday.
Applications of five other accused--BSF DIG K C Padhi, Jammu and Kashmir Police DSP Mohammad Ashraf Mir, Merajuddin Malik, Shabir Ahmed Laway and kingpin Sabeena-- will be taken up on Saturday.
Earlier, a local court on July 11 had reserved the final orders on the bail applications of Mir and Khanday for today.
Besides Mir, Mattoo and Khanday, among the other arrested are sacked state Additional Advocate General Anil Sethi, Jammu and Kashmir Police Counter-Insurgency Kashmir (CIK) wing DSP Mohammad Yousuf Mir and Naaz Hotel manager Riyaz Kawa.
Mir, a former Minister of State for Roads and Buildings and a Congress legislator from Dooru in Anantnag district, was arrested by the CBI from the Jammu and Kashmir House at Chanakyapuri in New Delhi on June 20.
Mattoo, a former Minister of State for Industries and Commerce and an independent legislator from Habba Kadal in Srinagar, was also arrested by the CBI from his residence at Gupkar here on June 20.
DSP Mir was the first person to be arrested by the CBI in connection with the sex scandal.
The DIG BSF had surrendered before the CBI here on June 7 while Sethi, who was evading arrest since a proclamation notice was issued against him on June 14 by the CJM following a request by the CBI, also surrendered in a local court at Jammu on June 21.
On June 29, the CBI arrested Khanday, an IAS officer of 1978 batch and Principal Secretary in the Planning and Development Department. He had served on several top posts, including the Principal Secretary to former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and among very few people from the Valley having qualified the Civil Services examination.
On the same day, the CBI also arrested Kawa from the Jammu airport. Both were arrested under section five of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act.
On June 30, the agency sleuths arrested CIK DSP Mir from his office at Hari Niwas here. he sex racket case was handed over to the CBI on May 1 following allegations that politicians, bureaucrats besides senior police and paramilitary officials were involved in the scandal.
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