Sex racket: BSF DIG appears in HC to surrender

Srinagar, June 6: A Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) of the Border Security Force (BSF), against whom a local court here had issued an arrest warrant in the sex scandal case, today sought to surrender in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court.

BSF DIG K S Padhe, now posted in the northeast and who had been evading arrest after he failed to appear before the CBI for a Test Identification Parade (TIP), today appeared in the High Court when it was hearing the sex racket case.

He wanted to surrender in the court. However, the court did not accept his plea and instead asked him to surrender before the CBI.

The CBI, which is investigating the case, asked Padhe to surrender in their camp office here so that they secure his remand from a Magistrate for custodial interrogation.

The CBI had arrested a senior Jammu and Kashmir Police official in connection with the case on June 4.

The CBI then approached the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Srinagar to obtain a four-day remand of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Ashraf Mir for his custodial interrogation.

Mir, at present posted as the Sub-Divisional Police Officer in the Pattan Police Station, was identified by Yasmeena, one of the minor victims of the sex racket, in the TIP after being absconding for ten days.

The CJM had also issued an arrest warrant against Jammu-based advocate Anil Sethi, the son of retired judge and former Chairman of the State Accountability Commission R P Sethi.

UNI

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