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Srinagar, Jun 23: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court today heard the arguments in the sex racket case and posted it for orders tomorrow.

The CBI, which is investigating the sex racket scandal, submitted the case diaries to the court.

A division bench, comprising Justice Bashir Ahmed Kirmani and Justice Hakim Imtiyaz Hussain, perused the case diaries and later posted the case for orders tomorrow.

The sex racket case was handed over to the CBI by Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on May one following allegations that politicians, bureaucrats besides senior police and paramilitary officials were involved in the scandal.

As soon as the scandal surfaced, massive demonstrations erupted in the entire Kashmir valley and the angry protestors brought down the houses of alleged sex racket kingpin Sabeena at Habba Kadal in the old city on June 5.

On May three, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court took a suo motu cognisance of the case and then on May 12 admitted a public interest litigation filed by the Kashmir Bar Association.

Since then the High Court is hearing the sex racket case and monitoring the investigations into the scandal by the CBI.

So far, the CBI has arrested former ministers Ghulam Ahmed Mir and Raman Mattoo, K S Padhi, a Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Border Security Force (BSF) and Mohammad Ashraf Mir, a Deputy Superintendent of Jammu and Kashmir Police, in connection with the sex racket case.

Former Additional Advocate General Anil Sethi, who had been absconding, surrendered in a Jammu court on June 21, a day after the two ministers were arrested by the CBI.

UNI

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