Fayaz Bukhari
SRINAGAR, Jan 28: The Anti Corruption Court in Srinagar today issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against five persons including four students of Government Medical College, Srinagar involved in Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE)’s Common Entrance Test (CET)-2012 scam.
The Special Judge Anti-Corruption Srinagar, Mohan Lal Manhas today issued non-bailable arrest warrant against four students of GMC Srinagar – Bazila Bilal Ved, Amira Shakeel, Sadam Farooq and Haroon Rashid Lone – who were selected for MBBS course for GMC, Srinagar fraudulently in 2012.
Court has already sent 12 MBBS students to Central Jail early this month and arrest warrant was issued after Crime Branch failed to produce these students before the court.
The court also issued non-bailable arrest warrant against Farooq Ahmad Itoo who was involved in the selling of question papers to the students and was let off by the Crime Branch after he turned approver.
Itoo who along with former BOPEE chairman, Mushtaq Ahmad Peer and Sajjad Ahmad Bhat are main accused in the scam. The Crime Branch recorded his statement during the investigations before the Magistrate.
Last month court observed that Peer and his co-accused, Farooq Ahmad Itoo and Sajjad Ahmad Bhat, have decimated the career of the meritorious students by selling the question papers of CET-2012. “The criminal act of applicant/accused by hatching a criminal conspiracy with other co-accused by indulging himself in clandestine sale of question papers for huge monitory consideration of about Rs 60 lakhs to less/average students has completely decimated the career of meritorious students”, the court observed.
The Special Judge Anti Corruption today said that during the last hearing of the case the investigating officer of Crime Branch had told the court that these accused will be produced before the court but he failed to produce them.
The court made strong observations against the Crime Branch for not producing the accused: “Non-production of these accused makes mockery of investigation and High Court guidelines and what is the explanation of the Investigation Officer for letting off accused Itoo when he made confessional statement.”
Crime Branch also produced 16 accused including Peer before the Court today and two more accused Abdul Qadir and Ghulam Nabi Bhat were produced for the first time before the court and they were sent to judicial custody till February 1.
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