The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has asked the J-K government to issue a fresh notification if it wanted a CBI probe into the sex racket, as an earlier sanction was insufficient for registering a case. Although officially there was no word on this, sources in the department said the sanction for registering the case issued by an under secretary in the state Home department was not legally valid for CBI to register a case.

The state government has been asked to issue a fresh notification following procedures and guidelines and send it to the DoPT so that a notification could be issued to the CBI for registering a case, they said.

The earlier notification issued on May 1 said sanction was accorded for entrusting case FIR no 20/2006 registered at Shaheed Gunj police station under Section 67 of the Immoral Trafficking Act with the CBI. It was not accompanied by case details and seizures made by the local police so far, said an official.

The state police have arrested Sabina, the alleged kingpin of the racket, and four others. Two of them have been released on bail. The fight between two senior superintendents of police of two districts is understood to be the reason why the scandal became public. Names of two politicians, who were ministers in the previous PDP-led coalition, a DIG of a paramilitary force and some senior policemen are understood to have figured in the scandal.