SRINAGAR, March 21 -- While Police have filed case for "custodial escape" and shifted probe into the "custodial death" of school principal Rizwan Ahmad Pandit to Pulwama district from the summer capital Srinagar, his family members rebutted police's "theory" and demanded a judicial probe.

"A team of police headed by a DSP picked him and when we visited them in the morning (on Monday) we were told that Rizwan has been arrested by NIA. The torture marks on his body speak that he has been subjected to severe torture so as to extract a confession from him," Rizwan's father, Asadullah Pandit, said. "He was innocent. What could he reveal when there was nothing," he said, adding, "There were severe torture marks on his body and if the body is t...