Kashmir Bar Association to move court against Azad

Srinagar, June 25 (UNI) The Kashmir Bar Association (KBA) has termed as ''contempt of court'' the recent utterances of Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad about the sex racket in the Valley and decided to move court against him.

In a statement, the KBA took strong notice of Mr Azad's remarks in which he had reportedly compared the ''sexual exploitation'' in Jammu and Kashmir with sex scandals in Delhi and Mumbai.

''The sexual exploitation case of Jammu and Kashmir cannot be equated with the prostitution centres in Delhi and Mumbai,'' a spokesman of the KBA said in the statement.

''The sexual exploitation of Kashmiri girls is a conspiracy hatched by India and its collaborators in Kashmir to harm our moral values and ethos,'' he alleged.

The spokesman also quoted statements of BSF DIG K C Padhi and the Intelligence Bureau Director who had ''acknowledged that they were using the girls for intelligence purposes''.

''If Mr Azad thinks that sexual racket case was similar to that in Mumbai and Delhi, then why was the probe handed over to the CBI?'' he asked.

''Now when the CBI is investigating the case, Mr Azad has come up with the statement which could influence the investigation,'' the spokesman claimed.

Taking a dig at the Chief Minister, he said Mr Azad has neither dismissed nor suspended his party colleagues against whom the CBI had collected evidences and arrested them.

''Mr Azad should not to support these black sheep involved in the sexual exploitation and tender apology for their bad deeds and expel them from party,'' the spokesman said.

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