CBI assures J

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Srinagar, Jun 6 (UNI) The CBI today assured the Jammu and Kashmir High Court that it will not ''succumb to any pressure'' and conduct ''free and fair'' investigations into the sex racket case, which has rocked the Valley during the past few weeks.

CBI Director Vijay Shankar, who appeared in the court today, gave this assurance to a division bench, comprising Justice Hakeem Imtiyaz Hussain and Justice Bashir Ahmed Kirmani, which is hearing the case.

Mr Shankar also assured the court that the CBI would not ''tolerate or succumb to any interference'' in the investigations.

He said action would be taken against all the guilty.

The court once again expressed unhappiness over the pace of investigations into the case to which the CBI said it was now picking up the speed.

The court posted the case for Friday.

The Additional Solicitor General of India, who was also present, produced case diaries to the bench which after perusing those posed certain questions to him.

On this, the Additional Solicitor General pleaded for some time to make the submission and answer the queries of the bench.

A team of two lawyers and a lady doctor formed by the bench to examine Yasmeena also submitted its report to the court about her health condition.

The court took possession of the report and listed the case for hearing on June nine.

Meanwhile, 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, sought to surrender in the High Court today.

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 AG YA HT1948

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