ARRESTED by the Jammu and Kashmir Police quickly after an NIA court docket had given him bail in a terror funding case, PDP youth wing chief Waheed Ur Rehman Para was Monday remanded to seven-day police custody together with Mukhtyar Ahmed Waza alias Munir Ahmed Sofi, a People’s League chief and member of the Hurriyat Conference.
The case towards them, underneath the UAPA aside from a number of IPC Sections, is of alleged hyperlinks between politicians and terrorists. The remand software says the FIR was registered by the Counter-Insurgency Wing of the J&Ok Police in Srinagar following “info from dependable and confidential sources that some political functionaries are misusing their membership, place, or affiliation with political events and as part of felony conspiracy, they’ve established clandestine connections and relations with totally different Pakistani terrorists and secessionist organisations working in J&Ok’’.
Claiming to have recovered “incriminating” materials towards the accused throughout searches of their homes in J&Ok, the FIR provides, “Taking advantage of the cover available to them because of their membership or position or affiliation with political parties, these unscrupulous political parties’ functionaries have variously supported the terrorists and secessionists… by way of paying money, organizing select physical attacks through terrorist elements, facilitating their movements, transporting their fighting hardware and importantly saving them from range of legal and coercive actions of Law Enforcement Agencies…”
The police sought seven-day remand saying they needed to take the 2, arrested from the Joint Interrogation Centre in Jammu on January 10, to Srinagar to be produced earlier than the Special Judge underneath whose jurisdiction the case fell. Granting the transit remand, the NIA court docket directed the police to provide the 2 earlier than the designated court docket on January 18.
Criticising Para’s arrest in one other “fabricated” terror case, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti tweeted, “This is purely political vendetta against PDP for raising our voice against Delhi’s onslaught.”
