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Srinagar, July 29 (UNI) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today filed a charge sheet in a local court here against five persons, including two former state ministers and a senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, involved in the sex racket.

This is the second chargesheet filed by CBI in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), Srinagar, in the sex scandal that rocked the valley forcing the government to hand it over to CBI.

The first chargesheet was filed against nine people, including former Additional Advocate General Anil Sethi, Deputy Inspector General of Border Security Force BSF), a police officer and kingpin Sabeena and her husband.

They were booked for allegedly raping and forcing a minor girl into prostitution.

However, the CJM transferred the case to Sessions court for further hearing.

The CBI today filed case against former minister Raman Mattoo and Ghulam Ahmad Mir and Iabal Khanday, a senior IAS officer.

The alleged kigpin of the racket Sabeena and her husband Abdul Hamid were named in both the charge sheets.

Mattoo, Mir, Khanday and the police official have been booked under section 5 of Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act, which relates to acquiring a girl for prostitution while Kawa has been booked under section 3 of the act, dealing with using a premises for prostitution.

Mir, a former Minister of State for Roads and Buildings and a Congress legislator from Dooru in Anantnag district, was arrested by the CBI from the Jammu and Kashmir House at Chanakyapuri in New Delhi on June 20.

Mattoo, a former Minister of State for Industries and Commerce and an independent legislator from Habba Kadal in Srinagar, was also arrested by the CBI from his residence at Gupkar here on June 20.

The DIG BSF had 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 at Jammu on June 21.

On June 29, the CBI arrested Khanday, an IAS officer of 1978 batch. He had served on several top posts, including the Principal Secretary to former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and was the first person from the Valley to have qualified in the Civil Services examination.

On the same day, the CBI also arrested Kawa from the Jammu airport. Both were arrested under section five of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act.

On June 30, the agency sleuths arrested CIK DSP Mir from his office at Hari Niwas here.

The sex racket case was handed over to the CBI by Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on May 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 3, 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.

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