The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has objected to an application by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Waheed Ur Rehman Para, who is out on bail after arrest in an alleged terror case, seeking travel permission to New Delhi to visit his nephew at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
Waheed sought an NIA court’s nod to travel as his bail conditions bar him from leaving Jammu and Kashmir without permission.
Waheed’s father Ghulam Ahmad Para is undergoing treatment for cancer from the Tata Institute in Mumbai, and his seven-year-old nephew is admitted in AIIMS with a “life threatening” disease.
“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,” it said.
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