SRINAGAR – The Occupied Jammu and Kashmir High Court cancelled the bailgranted to banned Dukhtaraan-e-Milat’s chief Aasiya Andrabi and four othersin a terror-related case, saying the trial court had exercised thediscretion to grant bail in an “erroneous manner”.
On Saturday, the division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Alok Aradheand Justice M K Hanjura quashed the order of Aanantnag Additional SessionsCourt, granting bail to Andrabi and four others last month.
They had been arrested by the Anantnag Police in April this year forallegedly planning to organise a large-scale demonstration andstone-pelting in South Kashmir.
The police did not release Andrabi despite being granted bail by the courtand arrested her in a different case. In the meantime, they approached theLaw Department to challenge the trail court’s order.
Since Swayam Prakash Pani took over as the inspector general of police(Kashmir range), special emphasis was being laid on pursuing all casesagainst separatists and to ensure that justice was delivered at theearliest.
The high court cancelled the bail of Andrabi and others in the case afterthe police submitted its case diaries and the investigation carried out.