Kupwara, Dec. 9 -- The Principal District and Sessions Judge, Kupwara, on Monday dismissed the bail applications of eight police personnel, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, who are accused of illegally detaining and subjecting a constable to custodial torture at the Joint Interrogation Centre in Kupwara in February 2023.

The case stems from an FIR registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) following directions of the Supreme Court, after the wife of the victim alleged that her husband, Constable Khursheed Ahmed Chowhan, was tortured while in custody under the pretext of a narcotics-related investigation.

According to the CBI chargesheet, the constable was unlawfully detained at the interrogation centre between F...