Anara Gupta moves HC seeking CBI probe in porn CD case

JAMMU: Former Miss Jammu Anara Gupta on Thursday filed a writ petition in the High Court here to seek CBI investigations into much publicised porn CD case, which was reopened again on the direction of a lower court.

Accompanied by her mother Raj Rani, Anara filed the petition in which she said she did not have faith in police probe and hence wanted a CBI investigation.

Anara was arrested on October 24, 2004 and allegedly kept in illegal confinement and tortured by police.

Jammu and Kashmir police's Crime Branch, after completion of investigation in the matter, filed a final report before the High Court and Jammu Chief Judicial Magistrate for closure of the case as nothing was found against her.

While the HC allowed the closure of the case in December 2005, CJM Sanjay Dhar rejected the plea and directed the Director General of Police (DGP) in May 2006 for fresh investigation into the case.

The DGP constituted a Special Investigating Team comprising SSP Abdul Aziz Khan, DSP Ashok Sharma, SDPO North and Inspector Lal Chand in August 2006. The team has not started investigation so far.

A similar petition filed by social activist Amit Chouhan for a CBI probe is bending before a Division Bench at Srinagar.