J&K Government moved to Supreme Court seeking transfer of 7 Pakistani terrorist to Tihar

Guwahati: The Jammu & Kashmir government moved to Supreme Court seeking transfer of seven Pakistani terrorists to Tihar jail from Jammu jail. The government has moved to the top court on grounds that they were allegedly indoctrinating local prisoners.

After the Jammu&Kashmir government moved to the court, a bench of Justices L.N. Rao and M.R. Shah sought response from the Centre and the Delhi government on the plea.

"Terrorists belonging from different organizations should be shifted out of Jammu jail as they were involved in the indoctrination of local prisoners," said J&K government's standing counsel Shoeb Alam.

He further said that the prisoners could be moved to Haryana or Punjab jail if not in Tihar jail.

The bench, however, said that it will hear the matter and asked the standing counsel to ensure that a copy of the notice should also be served to the seven terrorists as well.

The Jammu & Kashmir government has moved to the top court after a day of the terror attack in Pulwama to shift a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Zahid Farooq out of Jammu jail.

The terrorist was arrested by security forces while trying to cross the border security fence on May 19, 2016.

The Jammu government had said that intelligence inputs received indication that militants belonging to terror outfits like Jaish-e-Muhammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba are training the minds of other local inmates in the prison.

The state government of J&K has also said that transporting the militant to court and back to prison might pose a threat to escorting police and also to the common public for which they sought shifting of the trial to Delhi.

A same case occurred last year when policemen were killed and a Pakistani terrorist prisoner was freed from custody while on a hospital visit. Therefore, the Jammu government said that Farooq's transfer from Jammu jail to a high-security prison outside the state is in the interest of national security.

The Foreign prisoners are radicalizing and brainwashing the brain of local youths serving in the prison and the effect of such radicalization is that the youths who are inmates with these prisoners are spreading the menace of terrorism. They are also creating sympathizers by influencing and mobilizing against the state.

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