Senior PDP chief Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra, a detailed aide of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, was an asset for Pakistan-based terror teams and his 13 years’ journey from 2007 as a journalist and politician was a “saga of subterfuge, deceit and double dealing”, alleges a police chargesheet towards him. Parra is alleged to have established a nexus with terrorists for searching for assist from them for political good points and reciprocated it by offering a spread of assist and assist which led to terror strikes.
With the assistance of 5 protected witnesses and technical intelligence, the Criminal Investigation Kashmir (CIK), a wing of the CID Department, submitted a chargesheet earlier than an NIA Court just lately alleging that Parra was hand-in-glove with terrorists to additional the agenda of Pakistan-based terror teams and likewise to make sure that his political adversaries are neutralised. The 19-page chargesheet, with tons of of pages of annexures, has given cases of his focused makes an attempt to eradicate political opponents and to assist his occasion leaders by paying terror teams to swing the electoral battle in his occasion’s favour.
His lawyer has denied all these fees throughout numerous courtroom proceedings associated to his bail and custodial pleas, and claimed that his shopper, who gained the District Development Council elections final 12 months, was being made a political scapegoat. The chargesheet highlighted his hyperlinks to Pakistan-trained Abu Dujana and Abu Qassim, who had been killed in separate encounters with safety forces, and went on to allege that he used to satisfy them personally in addition to via Over Ground Workers (OGWs).
The chargesheet alleged {that a} pressured marriage between a woman and dreaded Pakistani terrorist Abu Dujana had his “blessings”, the chargesheet claimed. The police have tracked his journey from 2007 when he went to Pakistan and interviewed banned Hizbul Mujahideen’s chief Syed Salahuddin and broadcast it on his native media channel which was being operated from Pulwama, his residence district, in South Kashmir.
Parra joined the PDP in 2013 and “once ensconced in the safety of a recognised political party…, the accused systematically went about strengthening himself by craftily deepening his roots on two sides of the divide — India and Pakistan”. “…Parra had the permission of the Pakistani establishment to keep throwing crumbs at India, allowing them petty tactical gains and systematically pushing the overall situation, slowly but surely, in favour of Pakistan in a strategic sense. What played out over 13 years (2007-2020) was a saga of subterfuges, deceit and double meaning,” the chargesheet alleged.
The CIK, which is remitted to probe instances below the UAPA and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), took sanction for Parra’s prosecution from the Jammu and Kashmir Home Department below the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). The CIK had filed a case final 12 months towards unknown politicians and others based mostly on “reliable and confidential sources” who stated some political functionaries had been misusing their energy and serving to militants.
In March this 12 months, Parra was chargesheeted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and it was alleged that the PDP youth chief had paid Rs 5 crore to the son-in-law of hardline Hurriyat Conference chief Syed Ali Shah Geelani for conserving Kashmir in turmoil after the demise of Burhan Wani, the poster boy of Hizbul Mujahideen, in 2016. The NIA accused Parra, who was arrested final November, of being concerned with banned terrorist teams like Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba.
The NIA alleged that after the demise of Wani, who was killed in an encounter with the Army in July 2016, Parra acquired in contact with Altaf Ahmad Shah, alias Altaf Fantoosh, and requested him to make sure that the valley was stored on the boil with widespread unrest and stone-pelting. In January this 12 months Parra was granted bail by the NIA courtroom, which stated there was no reference to him within the authentic in addition to the supplementary chargesheets offered in July and October final 12 months respectively.
However, he was arrested by the CIK Wing within the case associated to nexus between mainstream politicians and secessionists, and he continues to be in jail since then. His bail was rejected by the NIA Court in Srinagar.
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