SNS KASHMIR
Srinagar, May 10:
After hearing detailed arguments from a battery of lawyers from the side of the defence and the counter arguments of SIA represented by Special Public Prosecutor, in eleven hearings and spread over five months the Hon’ble Court of Special Judge Designated under NIA, Act, Srinagar Shri Manjeet Singh Manhas has framed charges against accused Mohammad Akbar Bhat @ Zaffar Akbar Bhat (Chairman Salvation Movement) S/O Ab. Jabbar R/O Usmania Colony Baghi-Mehtab 02) Fatima Shah W/O Nisar Ahmad Shah R/O Palhalan Pattan A/P 172, Nundreshi Colony near Sham Lal Pump Bemina, Srinagar. 03) Altaf Ahmad Bhat S/o Abdul Jabar Bhat A/P Pakistan 04) Qazi Yasir S/O Late Nisar Ahmad Qazi R/O Qazi Mohalla, Reshi Bazar, Anantnag 05) Mohammad Abdullah Shah S/O Ghulam Ahmad Shah R/O Kulpora Salkoot Kupwara. 06) Sabzar Ahmad Sheikh S/O Bashir Ahmad Sheikh R/O Nowgam,
Shangus Anantnag. 07) Manzoor Ahmad
Shah S/o Gh. Ahmad Shah R/o Kulpora
Salkote Kupwara A/P Pakistan. 08) Mohd
Iqbal Mir S/O Ghulam Rasool Mir R/O
Cheeni Chowk near Khwaja Mir Ali School
Anantnag of Mahaz Azadi front, for
committing offences under 13, 17, 18, 40
UA(P) Act r/w 420 IPC in case FIR
No.05/2020 of P/S CIK/SIA Srinagar.
Case FIR No.05/2020 was registered in
CIK/SIA on 27-07- 2020 against
unscrupulous persons who were hand in
glove with some educational consultancies
for arranging admission of J&K residents in MBBS and other professional courses in
various Colleges, Institutions and
Universities in Pakistan. Huge amount of
money was received in lien of such
admission from the parents of the
students, and the money so earned was
ploughed into supporting terrorism in J&K.
During the course of investigation, searches in the houses of accused persons and at the other places was undertaken by sleuths of SIA after obtaining search warrants from Hon’ble Court. The documents and other material seized during search were analyzed and it was found that deposits in the account(s) of accused persons were made on account of providing admissions in various technical and professional course in Pakistan including MBBS. Cogent evidence surfaced during investigation that the money so received was passed on to terrorist(s) , stone pelters and OGW(s) for unlawful and
terrorist activities.
During the course of investigation
statement of witnesses were recorded and
on the basis of other evidence collected it
surfaced that the admissions in MBBS and
other professional courses in Pakistan was
in preferentially given to those students
who were close family member / relative of
killed terrorists on the recommendations of
members of Hurriyat and received by their
counterparts in Pakistan. It was on the
recommendations of Hurriyat that
authorities in Pakistan provided admission
in the professional colleges to the next of
kins (NOK’s) of killed terrorist as a
compensation to boost morale and keep
the pot of terror boiling in valley and infuse
new spirit into the terror fold.
It was further established during investigation that a part of larger
conspiracy accused persons through
different valley based consultancies
without their knowledge used to motivate
the gullible parents of students aspiring for
professional courses especially for MBBS
to apply through these consultancies for
such courses in Pakistan with the
assurance of cost effectiveness in
comparison with other south Asian or
middle east countries offering such
courses. On the motivation of accused
persons the parents / students often used
to get trapped. The accused persons in
conspiracy with Hurriyat leaders based in
Pakistan and Kashmir were demanding
huge amount of money from parents for
getting their children admitted in different
technical courses especially MBBS in
Pakistan. Moreover, they also would
arrange recommendations letters from
Hurriyat leaders and other VTD’s (valid
travel documents) from Pakistan Embassy,
New Delhi to facilitate their visit to
Pakistan for admission. All the
arrangement of parents / students in
Pakistan were usually done by the accused
persons in Pakistan. The students were
made to appear in the National Talent
Search (NTS) test at Hurriyat office in
Pakistan as a dupe tactics to made them
believe that they were writing a prequalifying test which would lead to their
admission in professional colleges in
Pakistan. Such tests were mostly
facilitated by the persons / relative of the
accused persons who had ex-filtrated to
Pakistan in 1990’s to get illegal arms
training and are settled in Pakistan /
Pakistan occupied Kashmir, who are
utilizing their Kashmir based contacts to
further aid and abet terrorism in J&K.
During investigation it came to fore that
the accumulated money was ploughed into militancy and to create law and other
problems by disturbing peace, damaging
public property, striking terror among the
common masses and creating potential
threat to the sovereignty of India. Money
raised through this process was also
distributed among the families of killed
terrorists as a token of incentive for such
families and families of active militants to
boost their moral and carry forward
antinational / subversive / radical activities
against the Union of India.
Recently Govt. of India /MCI have issued
notifications that professional Degrees
such as, MBBS and other technical
courses obtained from Pakistan will not be
recognized in India.