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3 Kashmiri activists in line for extradition requests
In a first of its kind move, the J&K Police is working to secure extradition of Kashmiris living in foreign countries who are wanted for local crime.
The disclosure was made by a news portal scroll.in in a news report on Friday which claimed that J&K Police is “preparing dossiers on three individuals against whom cases had been registered in the union territory”
“The idea is to make a complete and thorough case and forward it to the Ministry of Home Affairs and External Affairs for further action,” a police officer told the news agency.
The three Kashmiris have been identified as Malaysia-based Kashmiri business leader Mubeen Ahmad Shah whose cousin Sameera Fazili was recently selected by the new US President for a top post.
The other two have been identified as a video blogger of Kashmiri origin Riffat Wani who is a German citizen, and a Kashmiri doctor Asif Maqbool Dar who lives in Saudi Arabia.
In 2020, Dar was booked in Srinagar’s Kothi Bagh police station under Section 13 of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, under which an individual found guilty of advocating or abetting any “unlawful activity” could be sentenced to seven years in prison.
“His case is our priority,” a police officer told Scroll.in.
On February 5, J&K police arrested Muneeb Ahmad Sofi, a 21-year-old man from Bijbehara, at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. He was deported from Qatar and a police press release described him as an overground worker of the banned militant organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed, a charge his family denies.
Since 2017, many Kashmiris, believed to have been sympathisers of global terror group Islamic State or inclined towards joining it, have been deported to India.
Sofi’s deportation, Scroll.in reported, and subsequent arrest “marks a shift”. “It is the first instance of the Jammu and Kashmir police directly securing the custody of an expatriate wanted for a local crime. Police officials credit this to an administrative change,” the portal reported.
The special status of Jammu and Kashmir was read down and it was split into two union territories by the central government on August 5 2019, bringing the conflict-wracked region under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Home Affairs, one of the two central ministries involved in extradition matters.
“Jammu and Kashmir police is now able to pursue the extradition of Kashmiris living abroad more vigorously compared to the past. Anyone who makes any anti-India statement will face action,” he said.
According to reports, the police had contacted the relatives of all the three suspects living abroad and they confirmed the police had sought information on their family members and their properties.
3 Kashmiri activists in line for extradition requests
In a first of its kind move, the J&K Police is working to secure extradition of Kashmiris living in foreign countries who are wanted for local crime.
The disclosure was made by a news portal scroll.in in a news report on Friday which claimed that J&K Police is “preparing dossiers on three individuals against whom cases had been registered in the union territory”
“The idea is to make a complete and thorough case and forward it to the Ministry of Home Affairs and External Affairs for further action,” a police officer told the news agency.
The three Kashmiris have been identified as Malaysia-based Kashmiri business leader Mubeen Ahmad Shah whose cousin Sameera Fazili was recently selected by the new US President for a top post.
The other two have been identified as a video blogger of Kashmiri origin Riffat Wani who is a German citizen, and a Kashmiri doctor Asif Maqbool Dar who lives in Saudi Arabia.
In 2020, Dar was booked in Srinagar’s Kothi Bagh police station under Section 13 of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, under which an individual found guilty of advocating or abetting any “unlawful activity” could be sentenced to seven years in prison.
“His case is our priority,” a police officer told Scroll.in.
On February 5, J&K police arrested Muneeb Ahmad Sofi, a 21-year-old man from Bijbehara, at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. He was deported from Qatar and a police press release described him as an overground worker of the banned militant organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed, a charge his family denies.
Since 2017, many Kashmiris, believed to have been sympathisers of global terror group Islamic State or inclined towards joining it, have been deported to India.
Sofi’s deportation, Scroll.in reported, and subsequent arrest “marks a shift”. “It is the first instance of the Jammu and Kashmir police directly securing the custody of an expatriate wanted for a local crime. Police officials credit this to an administrative change,” the portal reported.
The special status of Jammu and Kashmir was read down and it was split into two union territories by the central government on August 5 2019, bringing the conflict-wracked region under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Home Affairs, one of the two central ministries involved in extradition matters.
“Jammu and Kashmir police is now able to pursue the extradition of Kashmiris living abroad more vigorously compared to the past. Anyone who makes any anti-India statement will face action,” he said.
According to reports, the police had contacted the relatives of all the three suspects living abroad and they confirmed the police had sought information on their family members and their properties.
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