PTI
New Delhi, June
A Delhi court on Monday refused to grant transit remand of two alleged operatives of the banned terrorist outfit ‘Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF)’ to the Punjab Police, saying the applying was “belated”.
Duty Metropolitan Magistrate Isha Singh famous the accused had been to be produced earlier than the court involved in Punjab right now on a manufacturing warrant it had issued earlier.
The choose stated the applying was filed right now at 11:55 AM and, even when the applying to take the accused to Punjab was allowed, it will not be doable to produce them within the court earlier than 5 PM.
“If the accused had to be produced earlier than the court involved in Jagraon, Punjab, the investigating officer ought to have filed the applying in time… This software is belated,” the choose stated.
The accused — Amritpal Singh, alias Ammy, and Amrik Singh — allegedly related to Canada-based terrorist Arshdeep Dhalla, are at the moment in judicial custody in a case lodged by the NIA.
The Punjab Police had sought their transit remand in a case of extortion registered on the Jagraon Sadar police station at Ludhiana.
The Punjab Police had registered a case beneath sections associated to extortion, Arms Act and the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in January 2023.
They had been arrested on the Indira Gandhi International Airport right here by the NIA beneath anti-terror legislation UAPA after their deportation from Manila, the capital of the Philippines, on May 19 for his or her alleged involvement in recruiting younger males for KTF. They had been additionally accused of smuggling and procuring arms and ammunition and elevating funds for the organisation.
On June 6, the court had remanded the 2 in judicial custody.
