Overview
- An NIA special court in Jammu ordered Shabir Ahmad Shah into the agency’s custody for 10 days for custodial interrogation in a decades-old case.
- The Srinagar branch of the National Investigation Agency arrested the veteran separatist in a 1996 case tied to an alleged assault on policemen at a militant’s funeral.
- A Delhi judge at Patiala House granted a three-day transit remand to transfer Shah to the investigating court that oversees the case.
- Shah had recently left prison after nearly seven years, receiving bail from the Supreme Court on March 12 and from a Delhi court on March 28 in separate matters.
- The NIA is India’s federal counterterrorism body, and court-approved custody lets investigators question a suspect under judicial oversight in security-related probes.