12-member CBI team expected in Kashmir tomorrow

Srinagar, May 10 (UNI) A 12-member CBI team is likely to arrive here tomorrow to begin probe into the sex racket case, allegedly involving top politicians, senior civil, police and security officials besides businessmen, sources today said.

They said the team would be headed by a Deputy Inspector General.

The CBI team will seek possession of all the records related to the case from the Jammu and Kashmir Police.

The Jammu and Kashmir government, on May one, decided to transfer the alleged sex racket case to the CBI for a thorough probe into the scandal.

The directions came after Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig wrote a letter to Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, seeking a CBI or a judicial probe into the alleged scandal considering the senstivity of the issue.

''This would also dispell any apprehension of cover-up by the police or the investigating agency. I believe this will inspire confidence in the inquiry process and also help the image of the government,'' Mr Baig had said in the letter, pointing out that certain top politicians and high-ranking police officials were allegedly involved in the sex racket.

Police had busted a major sex racket here recently which came to light following a complaint by residents of a downtown locality here about a pornographic CD featuring local girls and Sabeena, the kingpin, was accused of luring and blackmailing minor girls into prostitution.

The police then arrested several people in this connection a few days ago. Some top politicians, businessmen besides senior security force and police officials were allegedly involved in the flesh trade racket, allegedly run by Sabeena, in which more than 40 girls were believed to have been used for making pornographic films.

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