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Jammu and Kashmir cop lynching | NIA court grants bail to 17 accused

A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Srinagar has granted bail to 17 persons accused of lynching a police officer in 2017 outside Jamia Masjid.

Judge M.S. Manhas, while allowing the bail application on Wednesday, said there were no reasonable grounds to believe that the accused were guilty of lynching deputy Superintendent of Police Mohammad Ayoub Pandit.

Pandit was lynched by a mob on June 22, 2017 outside Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta area of the city when he was on duty in civvies during the Shab-e-Qadr that year.

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