Qureshi to be produced in court today

NEW DELHI, JAN. 10. A city court here today directed that Mr. Mohammed Hashim Qureshi, a founding member of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and an accused in the Indian Airlines plane hijacking case in 1971 be produced tomorrow, before it could consider his transit remand for taking him to Srinagar.

In his order, the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Mr. V.K. Maheshwari, said transit remand could not be granted in absentia. The accused must be present before the court for any sort of remand, he added.

However, Mr. Qureshi was arrested and remanded to judicial custody till tomorrow after his dramatic arrival here from Holland on December 29.

- UNI

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