The particular court docket of the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) in Punjab’s Mohali framed fees towards 10 folks, together with a Kashmir resident, in a case associated to narcotics and terrorism. The accused had been charged below the Narcotic Medication and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, the Illegal Actions Prevention Act (UAPA), the Arms Act and the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Particular NIA choose Manjot Kaur charged Hilal Ahmed Shergojri, Bikram Singh, Maninder Singh, Ranjit Singh, Jaswant Singh, Gurjant Singh alias Ashish, Ranjeet Singh alias Rana, Gagandeep Singh, Gursant Singh alias Gora, and Manpreet Singh below sections 120-B (prison conspiracy), 201 (destruction of proof), 419 (dishonest by personation), 471 (utilizing as real a solid doc), and 489-C (possession of solid or counterfeit forex or banknote) of the IPC.
Hilal Ahmed, Bikram Singh, Ranjeet Singh alias Rana, Gagandeep Singh, Gursant Singh, and Manpreet Singh, who’re in custody, had been produced by way of video conferencing.
Whereas framing the costs the court docket noticed, “Arguments on framing of cost have been heard. File perused. After going by way of the document and paperwork accompanying therewith and listening to discovered Public Prosecutor for the NIA and defence counsels, prima-facie offences are made out towards the accused for which they’re charge-sheeted; contents of the cost are learn over and defined to all of the accused (accused Hilal Ahmed, Bikram Singh, Ranjeet Singh alias Rana, Gagandeep Singh, Gursant Singh alias Gora and Manpreet Singh by way of video convention in presence of their counsels), to which they pleaded not responsible and claimed trial”.
The court docket mentioned, “Let the proof of the prosecution be summoned for June 6. The accused, who’re in custody, be produced by way of video conferencing on the mentioned date.”
This case was first registered on April 25, 2020, at Police Station Sadar, Amritsar Metropolis, regarding the arrest of Hilal Ahmad Shergojri, the seizure of a truck and the restoration of Rs. 29 lakh from his possession. In response to the police, Shergojri was an overground employee and a detailed affiliate of Riyaz Ahmad Naikoo, the then commander of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen in Kashmir, and had come to Amritsar to gather funds that had been proceeds of narcotics sale, for furthering terrorist actions in Jammu and Kashmir.
The NIA, which took over the investigation and registered the case once more on Might 8, 2020, filed a cost sheet within the case in 2021.