Court issues NBT against senior police officer in J-K

A city court today issued a non- bailable warrant for personal appearance of a senior police officer for his failure to comply with an earlier order to register an FIR against a DySP in connection with the killing of a youth in Tengpora area here on July 10.
Chief Judicial Magistrate, Srinagar, Masarat Shaheen issued the NBT against Senior Superintendent of Police Amit Kumar to be executed through the DIG, Central Kashmir after rejecting his application seeking exemption from personal appearance.
She directed the Chief Prosecuting Officer, who was present in the court, to forward the non-bailable warrant to DIG, Central Kashmir and file a compliance report before the court on Monday.

"The SSP, Srinagar is further directed to show cause as to why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against him for not obeying the court directions, whereby he was directed to lodge FIR and file a copy of the FIR within 24 hours," the magistrate said.
The CJM had on July 18 directed the SSP, Srinagar to file FIR against DySP Yasir Qadri and other police personnel on an application filed by father of Shabir Ahmad Mir, who was killed inside his house at Tengpora in Batamaloo area on July 10.
On Thursday, the counsel of the complainant pleaded before the court that despite directions, the SSP, Srinagar has not lodged FIR.

He had filed an application for initiating contempt proceedings against Kumar.

After hearing the counsel and and the Chief Prosecuting Officer, the court again directed the SSP, Srinagar to register an FIR against the DySP within 24 hours in connection with the killing of the youth.
"The SSP, Srinagar is directed to lodge FIR and comply with the directions of this court dated 18/7/2016 and file the copy of FIR within 24 hours.
"Otherwise, the SSP, Srinagar is directed to cause his personal appearance before this court to show cause as to why action should not be taken against him," the court had said on Thursday.