Srinagar, August 19: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court today issued notice to the state government to file its reply by August 27 on a plea filed by police officials arrested in connection with the rape and murder of two women in Shopian earlier this year.
Hearing the criminal revision petition filed on behalf of the police officials — Superintendent of Police Javed Iqbal Mattoo and Deputy Superintendent of Police Rohit Baskotra — by senior Supreme Court Advocate Aseem Mehrotra, Justice Sunil Hali asked the state to file their reply by August 27.
Pressing for release of his clients, Mehrotra contended that his clients had been kept unnecessarily behind the bars despite extending all cooperation to the Special Investigating Team constituted on the direction of the High Court.
–PTI