Shujaat Bukhari murder case | J&K Police approaches CBI for Red Corner Notice against accused

The Jammu and Kashmir Police has approached the CBI for issuing a Red Corner Notice against Sajad Gul, who escaped to Pakistan in 2017 and allegedly hatched a conspiracy to kill journalist Shujaat Bukhari last year, officials said Tuesday.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is the nodalagency for the Interpol in India and a request for the worldwide alert has tobe routed through the agency.

   

Papers from the J&K Police are being processed and willbe sent soon to the Interpol’s headquarters after completion of necessaryformalities, the officials said.

Bukhari, 50, along with his two personal security officers waskilled by unidentified gunmen on June 14 last year when he was stepping out ofhis office for breaking his fast during the holy month of Ramadan.

Gul is believed to have started an online campaign againstthe journalist.

Gul, a resident of Srinagar, had earlier been arrested bythe Delhi Police in 2003 and he had served sentences also. Later, he resumedhis education and completed a master’s in business administration from Jaipurbefore returning to Srinagar.

He was arrested by the Kashmir police in 2016 for anothermilitant related case and was subsequently released on bail.

The Jammu and Kashmir Police had also sent a Mutual LegalAssistance Treaty (MLAT) to the US requesting preservation of data of Bukhari’sFacebook and Twitter accounts.

Police believed that threatening messages were sent to himon social networking sites from Pakistan.

Facebook and Twitter are based out of the US and so isGoogle, which runs e-mail services.

Both the US and India are signatories to an MLAT since 2005which enables the two countries to pursue their common objective of lawenforcement of putting in place a legal mechanism to enable them to provide toeach other assistance in connection with investigation, prosecution, preventionof crime, including those relating to terrorism, narcotics, trafficking,economic and organised crime.The treaty shall include taking the testimony orstatements of persons; providing documents, records and items of evidence;locating or identifying persons or items; serving documents etc.

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