Wamiq Farooq case: Court adjourns hearing by day

Srinagar: A local court on Thursday adjourned hearing in criminal revision petition filed by police in teenager Wamiq Farooq’s killing. Correspondent said that the case came for hearing before Principal District and Sessions Court Srinagar, BansiLal Bhat. However, the public prosecutor sought time on personal grounds following which the case was adjourned till tomorrow. The complainant counsel, advocate Aijaz Ahmad Dar recently said that the petition by the police was not maintainable. However, public prosecutor had maintained that the Chief Judicial Magistrate has exceeded jurisdiction in its orders to police in connection with the teenager’s killing. On February 05 last, the CJM directed police to constitute SIT, to be headed by SP ranked officer, to clear contradictory versions into the killing while underlining that the occurrence was one and the same for which enquiry in the court and investigation by police were going on. Subsequently, on March 10 last, police filed the criminal revision petition against the CJM orders for constituting SIT to investigate five aspects of the case including examining the witnesses. The police has challenged the orders and prayed to allow the petitionby setting aside the February 05 orders of the CJM Srinagar in the “interest of justice”. The court directions had followed different versions by police and the complainant, father of the slain 13-year-old who died on 31 Januarylast year.