PMLA case: Court orders Shabir Shah’s release

A DELHI court Saturday ordered the release of Kashmir separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah from jail in a money laundering case. However, Shah is likely to remain in jail as two other terror cases registered by the NIA are pending against him.

“…The maximum substantive sentence prescribed for the said offence is seven years. He is in continuous custody in this case from 26.07.2017 and since then, more than seven years have passed… Therefore, he is directed to be released from judicial custody,” said Additional Sessions Judge Dheeraj Mor of Patiala House Courts in an order dated August 24.

The Enforcement Directorate initiated the money laundering investigation on the basis of an FIR lodged on May 30, 2017 against L-e-T chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and others.