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Srinagar, Apr 18 (UNI) Jammu and Kashmir High Court has appointed a Additional Sessions Judge to probe into the alleged custodial disappearance of a man from Kishtwar in Jammu region in 2006.

The single Bench comprising of Justice Mansoor Ahmad Mir gave the order on a petition filed by the mother of one Rafiq Ahmad Sheikh alias Mudasir Gujri alias Raju alleging that her son was arrested by Special Operation Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmir in the first week of July 2006 in Srinagar and subjected to inhuman torture in the Air-Cargo interrogation centre.

Pleading that her son was innocent, in the petition through her lawyer she sought directions to the SOG personnel to produce corpse of her son before the court.

The court after hearing arguments from both the sides said in view of specific stand taken by the parties, the case deserves to be inquired into.

Accordingly Additional Sessions Judge is appointed to inquire into alleged disappearance of Rafiq.

He shall proceed ahead after summoning the parties and shall submit his report within three months, the judge said.

She said her son after his arrest was produced before the court for hearing. On court hearings, the family members including, his father and sister met him. The detainee told the family members to arrange proper legal defence for him telling them that police was trying to implicate him in many fabricated cases.

She said two lawyers Mir Shafqat Hussain and Rafiq Ahmad Bazaz and her son was produced before the court of third Munsiff judicial Magistrate, Srinagar, along with co-accused Wasim Raja son of Ali Muhammad Zargar of Zoonimar, Srinagar.

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