STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Special Judge TADA Madan Lal, on Tuesday ordered release of Shafat Ahmed Shangloo in the kidnapping case of Dr. Rubiya Sayeed after rejecting the plea of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), seeking his judicial custody.
Shangloo had been arrested by the CBI in the kidnapping case and was produced before the designated TADA Court.
In January 2021, the then Special Judge TADA, had framed charges under Sections 364, 368 and 120-B RPC, Sections 3/4 of the TADA Act, 1987 and Section 7/27 of the Arms Act against Yasin Malik, Chief of JKLF, and others for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping.
As per the prosecution case, Dr. Rubiya Sayeed, daughter of then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, and a doctor in a Srinagar hospital, was kidnapped and kept in confinement at various places in the Valley during the onset of Pakistan sponsored terrorism.