Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Apr 29: Principal Sessions Judge Bandipora has rejected the bail application of two persons involved in human trafficking of Rohingiya women.
Principal Sessions Judge Bandipora presided over by Amit Sharma while holding the bail application moved by accused Nazir Ahmad Chopan of Hajin and Fayaz Ahmad Parray of Sumbal District Bandipora as devoid of merit and accordingly rejected the same.
The court said that the girls who become victims of this “Human Trafficking Trade” on the one hand, being uprooted from their family routes and thereafter taken away by these agents to an unknown place and the country where there is remote possibility and scope left available to them to reunite with their families.
“The same is also a very vital aspect which cannot be overlooked and the same shall be ascertained only when the trial of the case will commence”, court said and accordingly directed SHO concerned to coordinate with the Officials of the One Stop Center at Kupwara where these victim have been kept and arrange the video call facility with their family members on fortnightly basis.
“Simply with this objective that the family members of the victim girls came to know that they are in safe custody and as well as also directed to file compliance report to this effect and the same shall be placed on record of the file”, read the order.
Earlier the same court in the month of February refused to grant bail to both the accused-Chopan and Parray along-with other two accused namely Reyaz Ahmad Bhat of Qamarwari Srinagar and Abdul Qayoom Khan of Noorbagh Srinagar.
All the four accused are facing trial in FIR No 116 of 2023 registered with the Police Station Hajin, for committing of offences under Sections 370, 109 of IPC and these offences are Scheduled Offence under National Investigation Agency Act, 2008 and is exclusively triable by Special Court which is empowered to take cognizance without the accused being committed to it for trial.
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