Srinagar: Demanding a fair trial in the Srinagar sex scandal case, all the 15 accused began an indefinite hunger strike inside the Central Jail on Saturday.
The accused stopped taking any food on Saturday morning and have alleged that they are not getting a fair trial in the Chief Judicial Magistrate's court.
They also protested the inability to get lawyers to defend them in court.
Kashmir Bar Association has moved a resolution barring its members from representing the sex accused in the court as the Association is a party to the case by virtue of having filed a public interest litigation in the state high court.
Only former minister Ghulam Ahmad Mir and former additional advocate general of Jammu and Kashmir Anil Sethi have the services of counsels representing them.
While Supreme Court lawyer H R Khan Suhel is the counsel for Mir, Sethi is represented by his brother Sunil.
Besides Mir and Sethi, the arrested persons include another former minister Raman Matoo, IAS officer M Iqbal Khanday, BSF DIG KS Padhi, two Deputy Superintendents of Police Mohammad Ashraf Mir and Mohammad Yousuf Mir and alleged kingpin of the racket Sabeena.
The accused are lodged in five different central jails.
(With Inputs from PTI)
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