Chandigarh: A local court in Chandigarh fixed September 25 for hearing the Jammu and Kashmir sex racket case against 14 accused, including two former ministers, following the transfer of the matter here on the Supreme Court's direction.
"The hearing in the case will now be taken up by the court on September 25. The bail applications of the accused will also be taken up the same day," CBI's special prosecutor R K Handa said.
Sessions Judge B S Mehndiratta, who will preside over the trial, said he needed to go through the case files and fixed September 25, according to Handa and another CBI special prosecutor Rajan Malhotra.
The CBI counsel said Srinagar Central jail authorities had sought more time to shift the accused and make security- related arrangements.
Handa said senior Kashmir bureaucrat Mohammad Iqbal Khanday, who is among the 14 accused whose cases were transferred to Chandigarh, was present in the court on Saturday. He had earlier been granted interim bail.
The Supreme Court on September 4 had transferred the cases of the 14 accused from Srinagar to Chandigarh for trial after they were charge sheeted by the CBI.
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