Going back from her earlier statement that she had received money from the Pakistan high commission in New Delhi to fund separatist activities in India, arrested Hurriyat activist Anjum Zamrooda Habib on Tuesday told a Delhi court that her statement had been made under police pressure.
Police had 'forced' me to make 'false entries' in the diary [seized from her possession], she told Designated Judge S N Dhingra, when she was being produced before him for extension of the judicial remand.
Asked by the judge as to why she had admitted to having received the 'nazrana' when she was produced before him on February 7, Habib said she had never used the word 'nazrana' in court.
On the admission part, Habib said, "I was pressurised to depose since they [police] were taking me on ten days remand."
She asked the court not to believe the allegations levelled by the police following which the Judge reassured her that he would look into the matter at the right time.
Habib, who was arrested on February 6 allegedly while returning from the Pakistan high commission, had in her statement before the court admitted that the money seized from her possession had been given by the high commission to be forwarded to All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman Abdul Ghani Bhat.
The incident had led to a spate of diplomatic expulsions from both sides of the Indo-Pak border.
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