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| Shabir Khan returns to attend Assembly session | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 14: Congress MLA of Rajouri Shabir Ahmad Khan, who has been booked in a case of sexual assault on a woman doctor in Srinagar allegedly on January 28 at his office, was permitted today by the Investigating Officer Inspector Ghulam Mohiuddin to return to Jammu for the purpose of attending the current budget session of Legislative Assembly and Council.
Informed sources said that Khan would be attending the Assembly and the Council on Sunday when the legislature would start discussion on the annual budget.
After he succeeded to get interim bail from Mr Justice Janak Raj Kotwal through senior advocate B.S. Salathia on last Thursday with a direction to appear before the I.O., Khan came out of his hiding and landed in Srinagar in a SpiceJet flight. After staying at Circuit House for four hours, he presented himself before the I.O. at Police Station Shaheed Gunj. He filed his statement and replies to a questionnaire. As he learned from the I.O. that his arrest was required, Khan, as per the court order, submitted a personal bond worth Rs 25,000 plus a surety.
Khan also applied for permission to leave for Jammu to attend the Legislature's budget session as he could not move out of Srinagar without the I.O's permission. In the forenoon today, sources said, the I.O. issued permission to Khan. He landed in Jammu in an Air India flight 822 at 2.30 p.m. and drove straight to his official residence. Sources said that a large number of his friends and relatives, including politicians, greeted Khan on getting the interim bail.
Meanwhile, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, some health employees associations and a women's activists group have expressed concern over Khan's release and issued statements critical of the bail order and the government's alleged soft corner for the accused. As already reported, Khan was forced to quit as Health Minister when Police in Srinagar filed FIR against him on a lady doctors' complaint on February 6. |
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