Jammu and Kashmir Police has introduced GPS tracker Payal to monitor terror accused released on bail, becoming the first police force in the country to do so, officials said on Saturday.
A GPS tracker anklet is a wearable device that is affixed around a person’s ankle and monitors their movements.
This tool is already used in western countries like the United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand to track the movements of accused persons on bail, parole and home detention and accordingly reduce overcrowding in jails to a great extent. Is being done for.
Officials said that the State Investigation Agency (SIA) of Jammu and Kashmir Police has introduced GPS tracker anklet to monitor the terrorist accused released on bail.
He said that Jammu and Kashmir Police is the first police department in the country to introduce such a device.
Officials said these devices were introduced after the special NIA court, Jammu, passed an order directing the police to implant a GPS tracker anklet on a terror accused – the significance of which was highlighted by the police’s prosecution department. Had inserted.
Giving details of the case, officials said that Ghulam Mohammad Bhat, accused in an FIR registered under various sections of UAPA, had applied for bail.
Pending the bail hearing, the accused sought release on interim bail. He said that the accused is facing trial for his association with various terrorist organizations and involvement in terror financing at the behest of banned terrorist organization Hizbul Mujahideen (HM).
In the present FIR, Bhat was arrested while attempting to transport terrorism proceeds of Rs 2.5 lakh on the orders of HM.
Officials said the accused was also convicted by the NIA court at Patiala House in Delhi in another case on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization and conspiring to commit a terrorist act.
Officials said that in the Special NIA Court, Jammu, the importance of strict monitoring of terrorist accused by the Prosecution Department of Zonal Police Headquarters (ZPHQ), Jammu and stringent conditions for grant of bail under UAPA, 1967 was highlighted. ,
“Finding merit in the prosecution arguments, the Special NIA Court, Jammu, passed an order directing the J&K Police to fit GPS tracker anklet on the accused,” he said.
He said that Jammu and Kashmir Police is the leading police department in the country to provide GPS tracker anklets to persons seeking bail.