PDP’s Parra shifted from Srinagar to Jammu jail
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He was re-arrested in January this yr solely three days after a particular NIA court docket granted him bail in a case associated to the arrest of a police officer and two militants.
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) youth president Waheed-ur-Rehmaan Parra was shifted from Kashmir to a Jammu jail on Friday, three weeks after a United Nations report recommended that he was tortured “in reprisal” for his participation in a digital assembly with diplomats from UN Security Council nations in 2020.
An official stated Parra was shifted from the Srinagar Central Jail to the Kot Bhalwal Jail in Jammu, over 300 km away, on Friday morning.
Parra was re-arrested in January this yr solely three days after a particular National Investigation Agency court docket granted him bail in a case associated to the arrest of a police officer and two militants.
The J&K Police’s Counter-Intelligence (Kashmir) cell, which has registered an FIR No. 31/2020 beneath Sections 13/17/18/38/39/40 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Sections 124-A/120-B/ 121/121-A of the IPC, arrested Parra in a case associated to the “politicians’ nexus with militants” in J&K.
Parra, who contested the District Development Council (DDC) polls, was additionally elected from a constituency in November final yr however was not allowed to take oath.
Earlier this month, UN Special Rapporteurs mandated to research allegations of torture, arbitrary detentions and disappearances to the Human Rights Council claimed that Mr. Parra was subjected to abusive interrogations after his arrest and questioned concerning the feedback he made to UN Security Council members in a gathering in July 2020.
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