Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir): Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) youth president Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra who was shifted from Srinagar Central Jail to Kot Bhalwal Jail in Jammu, on Friday morning has been shifted back to Srinagar central jail on Sunday.
PDP sources confirmed this development to ETV Bharat. The development comes a week before Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to preside an All Parties Meeting of 14 top leaders of Jammu and Kashmir in New Delhi.
Earlier, on Saturday PDP president Mehbooba Mufti's maternal uncle and former legislator Sartaj Madni was released from six months detention. Waheed Para was among the leaders detained after the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019.
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In March this year, Parra was charge-sheeted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and it was alleged that he had paid Rs 5 crore to the son-in-law of hardline Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani for keeping Kashmir in turmoil after the death in 2016 of Burhan Wani, who was then the poster boy of banned Hizbul Mujahideen terror group The NIA accused Parra, who was arrested last November, of being involved with banned terrorist groups like Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba.
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The NIA alleged that after the death of Wani in an encounter with the Army in July 2016, Parra got in touch with Altaf Ahmad Shah, alias Altaf Fantoosh, and asked him to ensure that the Valley was kept on the boil with widespread unrest and stone-pelting. In January this year, Parra was granted bail by the NIA court, which said there was no reference to him in the original, as well as the supplementary charge sheets presented in July and October last year respectively. However, he was arrested by the CIK wing in the case related to the nexus between mainstream politicians and secessionists and continues to be in jail since then. His bail was rejected by the NIA court in Srinagar.
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