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Separatist leader Shabir Shah moves Delhi HC seeking bail in terror funding case
8/3/2023 10:12:05 PM
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NEW DELHI, Aug 3: Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah has moved Delhi High Court seeking bail in a terror funding case lodged by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in 2017 against separatist leaders and others. His bail was dismissed by the trial court on July 7.
The matter was listed before the bench comprising justices Siddharth Mridul and Anish Dayal.
The matter has been adjourned for hearing on August 7 as the bench was not assembled on Thursday.
A petition has been moved on behalf of Shah challenging the trial court order denying bail to him.
It has been submitted that the trial court judge erroneously declined to grant bail to the appellant herein by observing that in view of the bar under Section 43D(5) of UAPA and there being a prima facie case established at the point of framing charges, the appellant could not be granted bail.
It is also submitted that the Court ignored the complete lack of material against the appellant, the prolonged period of custody undergone, and that no criminality with respect to the commission of the offence is assigned to the appellant. There is not a single criminal act that can be attributed to the appellant.
It is also submitted that the appellant is a reputed political leader in Kashmir, having founded the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party in 1998 with the objectives of seeking the cooperation of people from within and outside the state, to inculcate brotherhood, friendship and goodwill, cultivate religious tolerance, regional and ethnic cooperation and interaction.
The plea stated that the appellant finds no mention in the main chargesheet and the first supplementary chargesheet where all the allegations aforementioned have been stated and the Investigation Agency has shown the offences that have allegedly occurred as a result of the said conspiracy.
"The Investigation agency has in fact gone on to show, the interlinkage between the accused persons' charge sheeted where again the appellant finds no mention," the plea said.
The FIR that was registered owing to the alleged conspiracy and the investigation showing the execution of the conspiracy in the main chargesheet by the accused persons admittedly does not find mention of accused Shabir Shah or his connivance in such conspiracy or any interlinkage in so far as the conspiracy or execution of the conspiracy concerned.
It is also submitted that the appellant has only been included in the second supplementary chargesheet and was arrested in pursuance of the same on June 4, 2019. However, the appellant has been in custody since July 26, 2017, in a PMLA case.
The plea has stated that the appellant has been incarcerated for over four years in the present FIR and intermittently for 35 years in different prisons in Kashmir and the country apart from being under house arrest for a substantial period, without a single conviction or charge against him.
On May 30, 2017, NIA registered a case against 12 accused persons for alleged conspiracy for raising and collecting funds for causing disruption by way of pelting stones, damaging public property and thereby conspiring to wage war against the government of India.
On June 4, 2019 Appellant was arrested. On October 4, 2019, a second Supplementary chargesheet was filed and the appellant was arrayed as accused along with others.
The allegations against the appellant included him playing a key role in building a separatist/militant movement in Jammu and Kashmir, inciting and instigating masses to shout slogans for secession of Jammu and Kashmir, paying tribute to families of slain terrorists, receiving money through hawala transactions, and raising funds through LOC trade which were used to fuel subversive and militant activities in Jammu and Kashmir.
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