Jammu, Feb. 8 -- Senior lawyers of the Jammu and Kashmir high court (HC) led by advocate Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed and National Conference's (NC) Bani MLA Dr Rameshwar Singh on Friday demanded judicial probe by a sitting high court judge into custodial torture of a 25-year-old Gujjar youth, who later allegedly died by suicide at his home in Billawar tehsil of Kathua district on Wednesday.

Addressing media persons here, HC lawyer Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed said, "We simply don't have any faith in magisterial probe and fact finding probe by police. We strongly demand judicial probe by a sitting HC judge."

If our demand is not conceded then we will be compelled to knock the doors of HC for justice, he added. Advocate Ahmed said that the 25-year-old w...