Judge flags issue of absent prosecutors
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Prosecutors fail to seem within the case in opposition to terror-accused Thadiyantavide Nazeer
With no ‘public prosecutor effectively appearing’ within the case of Thadiyantavide Nazeer, a terror-accused, within the Special Court of the National Investigation Agency, the court docket has sought the intervention of the Ernakulam District Collector to unravel the deadlock.
The Special Judge, who shot off a letter to the District Collector, identified that no public prosecutor was successfully showing within the circumstances in opposition to Nazeer for the final 9 postings or extra. The decide additionally requested the Collector to offer efficient directions to the prosecutors within the case.
The court docket additional identified that if some prosecutor appeared within the case, he was not able to argue the circumstances, which had been principally posted for listening to on framing expenses in opposition to the accused. The decide complained that the court docket was not even ready to grasp which prosecutor was showing within the circumstances. Most of the circumstances had been fairly outdated ones and the court docket might should proceed as no prosecutor was showing within the circumstances, he complained.
Investigating companies had alleged that Nazeer had hyperlinks with some extremist organisations and was concerned in some terrorist actions within the nation. The companies had additionally slapped the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act in opposition to Nazeer, who’s at present confined within the Parappana Agrahara Jail, Bangalore, in some circumstances.
He has additionally been arraigned as an accused and convicted in some terror circumstances.
Responding to the developments, District Government Pleader Manoj G. Krishnan stated the issue had not come to his discover.
Prosecutors to the NIA court docket are deputed from the pool of officers, as there aren’t any unique prosecutors for the Special Court. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, prosecutors are showing on-line in most of the circumstances. The look of the prosecutors might need gone unnoticed because of the technical glitches that may have cropped up through the on-line process, stated Mr. Krishnan.
The Special Court may have introduced the problems to the discover of the Principal District and Sessions Judge, he stated.
When contacted, the district authorities stated the letter has been forwarded to the prosecutors.
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