Srinagar, Jan 17: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has objected to the application filed by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Waheed Ur Rehman Para, seeking permission to travel to New Delhi, The Indian Express reported.
The NIA said that Para would “misuse the liberty and may not come back to face the proceedings.”
The PDP Youth wing leader sought permission to travel to New Delhi to visit his nephew at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) as his bail conditions bar him from leaving Jammu and Kashmir without permission.
“The present petition… is not maintainable and needs to be dismissed as the intention of the applicant/accused is to flee from the clutches of law,” the NIA said in its objection filed before the court. “There is strong apprehension that the applicant/accused would misuse the liberty and may not come back to face the proceedings in relation to the charge sheet that has already been filed,” NIA said.
“Additionally, the well-being of the nephew can be adequately addressed by his parents or other immediate family members,” it said.
The agency said that “such repeated” applications to travel outside Jammu and Kashmir may be “construed as a calculated strategy to evade justice”.
Over the last two years, Waheed made several appeals for travel to Mumbai to accompany his father, who is a cancer patient and undergoing treatment for cancer from the Tata Institute.
Waheed has also written to Lt Governor Manoj Sinha and J&K’s Director General of Police R R Swain seeking their intervention so that he could help “provide some respite to my kin”.
