Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 15: Facing lifer for terror charges, a Kashmiri man who contested 2009 Assembly elections here from New Delhi’s Tihar jail to seek justice was released last night after Delhi High Court acquitted him.
Mohammad Iqbal Jan of Bandipora and his friend Mushtaq Ahmad Kaloo of Sopore were sentenced for life by a court in New Delhi in 2009 on terror charges.
Jan contested Assembly elections on National Panthers Party (NPP) ticket from his home constituency Bandipora in 2009 to seek justice.
Jan’s nomination papers were filed by Chief of Delhi unit of the NPP, Sanjay Sachdev while his two sisters and other family members campaigned for his justice by seeking votes for him. He got only 1700 votes and lost the elections but managed to get justice 5 years later.
The businessmen duo was jailed for seven years over terror charges after special cell of Delhi police arrested them in November 2006 from New Delhi. The Sessions court had sentenced the duo to life imprisonment for carrying over Rs 5 lakh and over 2 kilogramme of RDX and other explosive material after dismissing their plea that they had been falsely implicated.
The head of the NPP and senior advocate Professor Bhim Singh appealed against their life imprisonment in Dehi High Court. Singh told Excelsior that after he argued their case on August 28, 2012, the High Court reserved the judgement and acquitted both the accused on May 6.
Singh said that the duo was falsely implicated as Jan had withdrawn money from the bank for the purpose of business for which he had documentary proof.
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