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JAMMU: Special Judge NIA Suneet Gupta on Saturday granted one month judicial custody of ex-Minister Jatinder Singh @ Babu Singh and Mohammad Shareef Shah in alleged Hawala trade and sent them to Kot-Bhalwal Jail.
The Court, while granting judicial remand of ex-Minister Jatinder Singh @ Babu Singh and Mohammad Shareef Shah observed that present application has been filed by IO of the case namely Sachit Sharma, DySP SDPO South Jammu before the court through virtual mode. The remand application revealed that aforesaid accused was arrested on April 9, 2022 and March 31, 2022 by the IO in aforementioned case. As such on the basis of allegations, the accused was booked for the aforesaid offences. As per the request of IO, accused remained in police custody for a period of 7 days and no further police remand of accused is required by the IO and now, by way of present application, IO has sought judicial remand of accused for a period of 30 days.
Court after hearing IO observed that the offences attributable to the aforesaid accused are heinous in nature and as per IO, the investigation of case is still going on, hence the prayer made by the IO is accepted and the aforesaid accused is remanded for judicial custody of accused for 30 days i.e. w.e.f., 16.04.2022 to 15.05.2022, during which they would be kept in Central Jail Kot Bhalwal Jammu. Superintendent Central Jail Kot Bhalwal Jammu was directed to produce accused before the court on May 15, 2022 on completion of the judicial remand.