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Court rejects ex-BOPEE chairman's bail in money laundering case 6/17/2016 11:46:48 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, June 17: Principal district and sessions, judge, Srinagar, Rashid Ali Dar has rejected the bail application filed by Mushtaq Ahmad Peer, former chairman of J&K Board of Professional Entrance Examination (JKBOPEE), in connection with the case filed against him by enforcement directorate under Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The judge rejected orders on the bail plea after hearing arguments from Peer's counsel as well as the special public persecutor for the Enforcement Directorate. "I have give my thoughtful consideration to the material before me and taking note of the fact that I have recorded satisfaction on July 16, 2015 about the existence of material on record suggesting prima-facie the commission of offence under section 4 of PMLA Act, I am of the opinion that the inference of reasonable grounds of non-involvement of the cases for the commission of offence cannot be drawn," the court said while rejecting the bail application. Mushtaq Peer was released after two and half years last month after the state high court granted bail in connection with the case FIR No 24/2013 registered against him under sections 420 and 120B of RPC and section 5(2)d read with section 5(2) PC Act at the Crime Branch police station. In July last year, the ED had filed the chargesheet in the court of principal district and session judge here under various sections of Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The Enforcement Directorate had registered a case against Peer which was based on the FIR of Crime Branch. In 2014, the crime branch investigation had revealed that Peer, in the capacity of then Chairman BOPEE, had,allegedly sold question papers of CET 2012 for Rs 60 lakh to broker Farooq Ahmad Itoo, who was running a computer centre in his hometown Anantnag in South Kashmir. As per crime branch, Itoo and his close aide Sajad Ahmad Bhat sold the papers to interested students and parents against hefty sums. Itoo later turned approver in the case. The ED had identified Peer's assets and cash in bank accounts in Delhi and Kashmir and issued attachment orders identifying them as "proceeds of crime" derived from alleged corruption money of the scam.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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