JAMMU, Jan 9: PDP youth president Waheed Para was today granted bail by an NIA court here after remaining in custody for one-and-a-half months for his alleged links with terrorists of Hizbul Mujahideen.
However, he was whisked away by sleuths of a security agency as he came out of the district jail here on being released but it was not immediately clear whether he was wanted in any other case or detained for questioning.
The NIA is likely to challenge the granting of bail to Para in the High Court.
PDP president and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti expressed concern over the latest detention of 32-year-old Para and sought intervention of the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha for securing his release.
“Despite NIA court granting bail to @parawhid after thorough court proceedings, he has now been detained by CIK in Jammu. Under what law & for what crime has he been arrested? This is brazen contempt of court. Request @manojsinha_ji to intervene so that justice is served,” Mehbooba said in a tweet.
Para, who recently won district development council (DDC) elections from his home town Pulwama district of south Kashmir, was produced in the NIA court, which granted him the relief on a surety bond of Rs one lakh and the personal bond of the like amount, officials said.
Additional Sessions Judge Sunit Gupta, in his order, set several conditions for the bail and asked the PDP leader not to leave the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir without prior written permission of the court, approach any of the prosecution witnesses with the purpose to win them over, commit any offence during the period of interim bail and also surrender his passport with the investigating officer of NIA.
Para was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on November 25 last year, a few days after filing nomination papers as a People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) candidate. (PTI)
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