Srinagar Dec 31 (KR): The newly created State investigation agency (SIA) has produced charge sheet in the MBBS seat selling racket in Pakistan.
As per the charge sheet many Hurriyat leaders used to sell these MBBS seats and other professional course admissions in Kashmir for Rs 10-12 lakh and most of the money approximately Rs 4 crore annually used to be pumped in for “militancy and other anti-national activities in J&K.”
In this case five persons including Hurriyat leader Zaffar Akbar bhat has been arrested while as two are hiding in Pakistan and one is at large, Sources told (KR) Kashmir review
The SIA produced Charge sheet before the Court of Special Judge designated Court under the NIA Act Srinagar in MBBS seat selling racket.
The charge sheet U/S 173 CrPc in Case FIR No. 05/2020 under section 13, 17, 18, 40, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 420 Indian Penal Code of police station CIK Srinagar has been produced before the Court of Special Judge Designated Court under NIA Act Srinagar aganist Mohammad Akbar Bhat @Zaffar Akbar Bhat (Chairman Salvation Movement) son of Abdul Jabbar of Usmania Colony Baghi-Mehtab, Fatima Shah wife of Nisar Ahmad Shah of Palhalan Pattan A/P 172, Nundreshi Colony near Sham Lal Pump Bemina, Srinagar, Altaf Ahmad Bhat son of Abdul Jabar Bhat at present in Pakistan, Qazi Yasir son of Late Nisar Ahmad Qazi of Qazi Mohalla, Reshi Bazar, Anantnag, Mohammad Abdullah Shah son of Ghulam Ahmad Shah of Kulpora Salkoot Kupwara, Sabzar Ahmad Sheikh son of Bashir Ahmad Sheikh of Nowgam, Shangus Anantnag, Manzoor Ahmad Shah son of Ghulam Ahmad Shah of Kulpora Salkote Kupwara at present in Pakistan, and Mohd Iqbal Mir son of Ghulam Rasool Mir of Cheeni Chowk near Khwaja Mir Ali School Anantnag of Mahaz Azadi Front.
Police Station Counter Intelligence Kashmir on receipt of information through reliable sources that several unscrupulous persons including some Hurriyat leaders were hand in glove with some educational consultancies and are selling Pakistan-based MBBS seats and seats in other professional courses in various colleges and universities, had registered a case in July 2020.
The information on the basis of which criminal investigations were started into the matter also suggested that the money collected from the parents of the aspiring or potential students was used, at least partly, to support and fund terrorism and separatism in different ways.
During investigation oral, documentary and technical evidences were collected and on analysis of collected evidences it surfaced that MBBS and other professional degree related seats were preferentially given to those students who are close family members or relatives of killed terrorists. Evidence also came on record to show that money had been variously put into channels that ended up in supporting programmes and projects pertaining to terrorism and separatism. For example, money collected in disguise of providing medical and other technical courses in various institutions of Pakistan were used to fuel up the unrest post elimination of Burhan Wani in 2016 and every effort was made to disturb the peace and tranquillity post abrogation of article 35A and 370 of Indian Constitution.
The Examination of witnesses corroborated by other circumstantial evidence indicated that many families who approached Hurriyat leaders to avail the programme of Hurriyat on the behest of ISI that aimed at incentivising terrorism by compensating the family of slain terrorists by way of providing free of cost MBBS and engineering seats as monetary consideration. By incentivizing the next of kin of killed militants for the terrorism and related activities of their killed militant relatives, Pakistan is trying to keep the Pot boiling and tends to radicalize the impressionable minds in the veil of technical education. As per investigation, on an average the cost of a seat ranged between 10 to 12 lakhs and depending upon the political heft of a Hurriyat leader who intervenes, concessions were extended to the aspiring student and his family.
On the basis of available evidence, a conservative estimate indicated that the money involved could be around Rs. 04 crore per annum, on the basis of the fact that allocation of seats for distribution by individual Hurriyat leaders where around 40 seats for MBBS programme every year. The historical bonhomie between Hurriyat leaders and their masters in Pakistan has been again exposed through the investigations and has exposed their nefarious designs once more of being hand in glove with the terrorists based in Kashmir valley and Pakistan and the undercurrents of their close knit relationship is only to destabilize the UT of J&K and Union of India.
Five persons 1) Mohammad Akbar Bhat @Zaffar Akbar Bhat 2) Fatima Shah 3) Mohammad Abdullah Shah 4) Sabzar Ahmad Sheikh 5) Mohd Iqbal Mir have been arrested and were produced before the Hon’ble Court, all of them were send to Central Jail, Srinagar, while as accused persons (1) Altaf Ahmad Bhat (2) Qazi Yasir (3) Manzoor Ahmad Bhat are absconding / evading their arrest and challan was produced against them in terms of section 299 Cr.P.C to declare them absconders while as the investigation with regard to the other aspects of the investigation/suspects (Co Conspirators) is in progress and the facts will be presented the Hon’ble Court through a supplementary charge sheet. Kashmir review (KR)
