Police officer arrested in sex racket case

Srinagar, July 1: A local court today sent another top police officer, arrested in connection with the recently exposed sex racket, to a four-day CBI remand.

The police officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Dy.SP) Mohammad Yousuf Mir, was arrested from his office yesterday, was produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM).

The CJM after hearing the arguments from the counsel sent Mohammad to four-day CBI remand.

Mohammad was arrested after he was named by a minor girl, official sources said.

The racket allegedly invovles former ministers, top bureaucrats, security force officials and businessmen.

The CBI has so far arrested two former ministers, Ghulam Ahmad Mir, who represents the Congress from Doru constituency and Raman Mattoo, who was elected from Habba Kadal constituency as an independent candidate.

A Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of BSF K C Padhi and Police Dy SP M A Mir, former Additional Advocate General (AAG) Anil Sethi and a senior IAS officer Iqbal Khanday besides a woman and her husband, and a hotel owner were arrested by the CBI.

The CBI also produced challan against Padhi and four others, including the woman in the CJM court last week.

The CBI arrrested Ghulam, a former Minister of State for Raods and Buildings from the Jammu and Kashmir House at Chanakyapuri in New Delhi on June 20 while Mattoo, a former Minister of State for Industries and Commerce was arrested by the agency from his residence at Gupkar here on the same day.

However, Padhi surrendered before the CBI here on June 7 while Sethi, who was evading arrest since a proclamation notice was issued against him on June 14 by CJM following a request by the CBI, also surrendered in a local court in Jammu on June 21.

Massive demonstrations erupted in the entire Kashmir valley and the angry protestors brought down the house of alleged sex racket kingpin Sabeena at Habba Kadal in the old city on June 5 forcing authorities to hand over the case to the CBI on May 1 following allegations that politicians, bureaucrats besides senior police and paramilitary officials were involved in the scandal.

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court took a suo motu cognisance of the case on May 3, and then on May 12 admitted a public interest litigation filed by the Kashmir Bar Association.

UNI

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