Court extends judicial custody of cops till Dec 17 accused in Wamiq Farooq killing

A city court here today extended the judicial custody of the two accused policemen in the teenager Wamiq Farooq killing case up to December 17.
The court also directed the complainant family to file objection, if any, to the bail plea by the accused by the same date, when the matter comes up for further consideration.
The orders were passed by the court of the Second Additional Sessions Judge, Srinagar, before whom the bail application of the accused — Assistant Sub-Inspector Abdul Khaliq and SPO Muhammad Akram — was listed.
The duo was also presented before the court as their judicial remand expired today.
Wamiq Farooq, a Class VII student, was killed by a teargas shell allegedly fired by the police on January 31, 2010, near the Gani Memorial Stadium in the old Srinagar city. Over 100 civilians were killed in the summer unrest that followed Wamiq’s death.
“The court today extended the judicial custody of the two accused policemen up to Thursday, December 17,” said a lawyer connected with the case.
The court had also asked the complainant family to file objections to the bail applications of the duo, said the lawyer.
The court has now put up the bail application of the accused for further consideration on Thursday, while the main case relating to the killing of Wamiq has been put for hearing on December 29.
Both the accused policemen had presented themselves before the court on December 1, and since then they are under judicial custody and locked up at the Srinagar Central Jail.
On December 9, while acting on the plea by the victim’s family, the Principal District and Sessions Judge, Srinagar, had ordered the withdrawal of the case related to the killing of the teenager from the court of the 1st Additional Sessions Judge and assigned it to the court of the Second Additional Sessions Judge, Srinagar.
The parents of the slain boy in their transfer application moved before the Sessions Court had submitted that they had “lost confidence” in the court of the First Additional Sessions Judge for “disclosing his mind” even before the arguments in the bail application of the two accused were concluded.