Indian student enrolled in Pak, father among 3 charge-sheeted for terror activities, spying
SRINAGAR: The State Investigation Agency (SIA), a unit carved out of the J&K police has filed a charge sheet against three persons including an Indian student enrolled in a Pakistani university and his father for indulging in terror activities and passing across the border information about army installations.
The charge sheet was filed against student Asif Shabir Naik, a resident of Kashtigarh in Doda, his father Shabir Hussain Naik, and Safdar Hussain (the latter two currently in Pakistan) under various sections of the antiterror law, officials said.
The SIA has invoked the legal tool of Letters Rogatory wherein the Pakistani court of law would be approached through the competent Indian court seeking Pakistan’s assistance in providing information about the chargesheeted individuals. “Even if the prospects of a positive response are bleak, the SIA would not leave a single legal stone unturned,” said a senior officer of the agency.
Asif Shabir Naik was given a cover as a student of the International Islamic University in Islamabad in a mass communication programme, but actually, he was working in the media cell of Hizbul Mujahideen, the officials said. He was intercepted at Srinagar airport based on intelligence he had been visiting Pakistan posing as a student studying there. However, as per officials, he had been visiting terrorist and separatist training facilities. Govt nod must for Pak medical/dental degree after 2018: The Home Ministry’s security clearance is made mandatory to appear in Foreign Medical Graduate Exam for those securing medical or dentistry degree or diploma from Pak after Dec 2018. Notifications were issued on Monday by National Medical Commission and Dental Council of India. One cannot practice as a doctor or as a dentist in India without clearing FMGE. Candidates will be barred from appearing in FMGE or seek employment in India based on the basis of their educational qualification obtained in Pak after 2018.