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Politics and Nation. Defence Defence National International Industry. Company Corporate Trends Deals. International Business World News. Tata Motors. Market Watch. Pinterest Reddit. By Masood Hussain. The Jammu Bar Association went on a strike after its former president Sunil Sethi alleged harassment in Srinagar where he had come to defend his brother Anil.
Former additional advocate-general Anil was detained by the CBI. JBA said since no Kashmir lawyer was pleading the cases of sex-accused and situation was not conducive, the trial court be shifted to Jammu. However, after the Kashmir Bar Association KBA claimed that they had no problems in lawyers coming from any place to defend the accused and that there was no harassment, it triggered a division.
KBA members are not accepting the cases of accused in sex racket since While the High Court is arranging the lawyers for most of the accused in the ongoing case, a former Congress minister has flown his two lawyers from Delhi. Jammu is again in the grip of the Anara Gupta fever after Shiv Sena threatened strike in case the investigations were not shifted to CBI. Given the massive media attention and alleged high-profile involvement, the case was handed over to the crime branch.
As the case shifted to crime branch, Anara turned hostile and accused police of framing her. While Hyderabad lab said the lady in action in the porno-film was not Anara, the Chandigarh lab said it was her and the Ahmedabad lab sought more photographs to corroborate the police opinion. By then, however, crime branch had dragged its feet and closed the case later in and placed the services of as many as five of its personnel — who had registered the case — under suspension.
