Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Dec 4: Prominent human rights activist Khurram Parvez was today taken into 3 weeks judicial detention and shifted to Tihar jail in New Delhi.
Parvez has been booked under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and other multiple charges after the National Investigation Agency (NIA), arrested him after they raided his house in Srinagar on 22 November and office in Srinagar.
He appeared before the Court in New Delhi today after which the court ordered his judicial custody and was shifted to Tihar jail.
A day after being arrested he was flown to New Delhi. According to the arrest memo, the sections that have been invoked against Parvez include 120B, 121 and 121A of IPC and sections 17, 18, 18B, 38 and 40 of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) Act, 1967.
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