Special Court in Srinagar grants bail to Sofi Akbar, accused in Kashmir online blog case
ANN News Desk
Srinagar, Sep 23: Special Court here on Thursday granted bail to Akbar Sofi, accused in online blog site “Kashmir fight” case.
However, the bail was granted to him in a different case pertaining to assassination of renowned journalist Sujaat Bukhari.
After hearing prosecution and defence counsels advocate Azhar Ahmad Dar and Mushtaq Ahmad Dar, the Court of Special Additional and Sessions Judge TADA/POTA Srinagar Manjeet Singh Manhas said that accused are admitted to bail on furnishing bail bonds.
“Yes, the bail has been granted to Sofi in FIR number 51/2018,” advocate Mushtaq Ahmad Dar who represented Sofi, confirmed to ANN News.
Earlier, the court had granted bail to other two persons accused in the case registered vide FIR number 82/2021. Those two persons who were granted bail earlier are NazishYasrabRehmani daughter of Sofi Akbar, a resident of Arihal Pulwama and Javaid Khalid son of Khalid Hussain, a resident of Poonch.
Today, the court granted bail to Akbar Sofi in the FIR number 51/2018 at Police Station Kothibagh.
On 7 July, this year, The Jammu and Kashmir Police had claimed to have arrested five persons running an online blog site which ran smear campaigns against prominent personalities in Kashmir.
