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JAMMU: A TADA court in Jammu released Tuesday Shafat Ahmed Shangloo, the alleged Yasin Malik accomplice whose arrest CBI announced the previous day as the missing piece in its 35-year investigation into the 1989 abduction of home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s daughter Dr Rubaiya Sayeed.The court of 3rd additional district and sessions judge Madan Lal rejected CBI’s plea for Shangloo’s custody on the ground that there was no mention of him in the agency’s charge sheet in the case, involving the banned JKLF.CBI’s statement after Shangloo’s arrest identified him as an “absconder” with a Rs 10 lakh bounty on his head. He allegedly conspired with incarcerated JKLF chief Yasin and others to abduct Rubaiya and barter her freedom with the release of five associates from jail.Yasin, serving a life term in Delhi’s Tihar Jail in a terror funding case, is being tried in the Rubaiya abduction case and a 1990 terrorist attack in which four unarmed IAF personnel in Srinagar were killed and 22 others wounded. Proceedings in both cases are being held in the Jammu court.Rubaiya, who now lives in Tamil Nadu, identified Yasin as one of her captors during a court hearing on July 15, 2022. Another witness backed her testimony in Feb 2023.The third of Mufti Sayeed’s daughters was a medical intern when JKLF terrorists abducted her on Dec 8, 1989, from near her home in J&K’s Nowgam. She was returning by bus from Lal Ded Memorial Hospital.
