Best Lawyers in Chandigarh No bail for ‘labourer’ with ISI links

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 27

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has turned down the regular bail plea of a “labourer” allegedly having links with Pakistan’s secret agency ISI. Photographs of sensitive Army areas of Mamun Cantonment in Pathankot were allegedly found in a mobile phone stated to have been recovered from him.

The Bench of Justice Hari Pal Verma was told that the petitioner, Irshad Ahmad, had disclosed during inquiry that he was having relations with one Sujjad Hussain involved in work of private computer. Hussain would visit Pakistan and was having relations with the ISI.

Hussain had asked the petitioner to send him photographs of the Army Cantonment. After clicking the photographs, he was to send them to Hussain, who was to further transmit them to ISI. In exchange of these photographs, they would get money from the ISI.

The Bench was also told that FIR in the matter was registered on February 2, 2016. Justice Verma asserted the court did not find any reason to grant regular bail to the petitioner, in view of the “very serious nature of allegations” against the petitioner. “However, as the petitioner is in custody since February 2, 2016, it is expected that the trial court shall expedite the trial”, he added.

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