The court issued notices in its July 25 order against the state Intelligence Chief and the Regional Passport Officer.
The J&K High Court asked two top officials last week to explain why they should not be punished for contempt of court as they failed to implement its order to consider issuing a passport to the daughter of fugitive terrorist Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar alias Mushtaq Latram.
The then Al Umar Mujahideen commander and two other terrorists — Masood Azhar and Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh — had been released in lieu of the passengers of hijacked Indian Airlines flight IC 814 in Afghanistan's Kandahar in 1999.
The court issued notices in its July 25 order against the state Intelligence Chief and the Regional Passport Officer.
Zargar's 12-year-old daughter, Aisha Mushtaq, had applied for a passport through her mother in 2013. However, security agencies gave an adverse report, prompting passport authorities to reject her application.
She challenged the decision in the High Court that quashed the order of the Passport Officer.
The court had directed officials to reconsider the case objectively, uninfluenced by the conduct of her father and submit a report to the Passport Officer strictly in light of the personal conduct of the petitioner.
Last month, the court directed the additional director general of police (CID/CIK), Kashmir, to submit a compliance of its December 29, 2017, judgment. But it was not done.
Justice Ali Mohommad Magrey noted that the additional director general of police got influenced by the conduct of the mother of the petitioner and her other relatives.
"The Passport Officer has also not applied its independent mind to the case and has totally relied on the opinion of the additional director general of police. Prima facie, they have been found as having committed contempt of court", said the judge
Justice Magrey asked the Registrar, judicial, of the high court to issue notice against them, asking why they should not be punished for contempt of court. "After issuance of the rule, the respondents shall file their reply to the show-cause notice within a period of four weeks", he said.
Azhar went to head another terror outfit, JeM, responsible for the Parliament and the Pathankot attacks. A resident of Old Srinagar, he has been hiding in Pakistan. Sheikh was later arrested by Pakistan and sentenced to death for killing Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Kandahar Hijack
Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar, Masood Azhar and Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh had been released in lieu of the passengers of hijacked Indian Airlines flight IC 814 in Kandahar in 1999
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