NC wants judicial probe into custodial death
Rejecting the parallel enquiries that the state government and the army have initiated into the custodial death of a young labourer in Budgam, the National Conference (NC) wants a time-bound judicial probe.
By Masood Hussain, TNN |
SRINAGAR: Rejecting the parallel enquiries that the state government and the army have initiated into the custodial death of a young labourer in Budgam, the National Conference (NC) wants a time-bound judicial probe. The principal opposition party in the state legislature said the coalition government has failed on all fronts, more so on human rights and must resign at the earliest.
“This was the worst gift that an aged father can receive on the eve of Eid,” Abdul Rahim Rather, NC’s legislative party leader told a crowded news conference. “The soldiers had tortured him ruthlessly, marks of burns using hot iron rods were visible on his body and at a few spots, the skin had peeled off,” he added.
Troops from 55-Rashtriya Rifles based at Kanidajan arrested 19-year-old Mohammad Maqbool Dar on Friday evening at his Pakharpora residence. His body was recovered from outside the same army camp a day after. Survived by his parents and a 10-year-old sister, Dar was the lone breadwinner of his family.
Massive protests broke out in the entire Chrar-e-Sharief belt — that Rather is representing — and leaders from all the mainstream political parties visited the bereaved family.
Rather said the brutal murder exposed the zero tolerance slogans that chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has extensively used to defend his position. “But now, we know these are mere slogans and the government does not mean it,” he said. Rather rejected the magisterial probe that the government has announced saying results of hundreds of such probes are buried under dust and does not mean anything.
The NC leader said the government is sabotaging the set constitutional traditions by not holding the assembly session in Srinagar . In the last eight months, the state legislature has met for a week during the visit of president A P J Abul Kalam. No reasons were offered by the Azad government for skipping a session in Srinagar that was earlier planned.
The assembly would meet in January at Jammu and the offices have already closed in Srinagar and would resume functioning for the six-month stint early next month. “This government is an outright failure on all fronts,” Rather said.
“This was the worst gift that an aged father can receive on the eve of Eid,” Abdul Rahim Rather, NC’s legislative party leader told a crowded news conference. “The soldiers had tortured him ruthlessly, marks of burns using hot iron rods were visible on his body and at a few spots, the skin had peeled off,” he added.
Troops from 55-Rashtriya Rifles based at Kanidajan arrested 19-year-old Mohammad Maqbool Dar on Friday evening at his Pakharpora residence. His body was recovered from outside the same army camp a day after. Survived by his parents and a 10-year-old sister, Dar was the lone breadwinner of his family.
Massive protests broke out in the entire Chrar-e-Sharief belt — that Rather is representing — and leaders from all the mainstream political parties visited the bereaved family.
Rather said the brutal murder exposed the zero tolerance slogans that chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has extensively used to defend his position. “But now, we know these are mere slogans and the government does not mean it,” he said. Rather rejected the magisterial probe that the government has announced saying results of hundreds of such probes are buried under dust and does not mean anything.
The NC leader said the government is sabotaging the set constitutional traditions by not holding the assembly session in Srinagar . In the last eight months, the state legislature has met for a week during the visit of president A P J Abul Kalam. No reasons were offered by the Azad government for skipping a session in Srinagar that was earlier planned.
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The assembly would meet in January at Jammu and the offices have already closed in Srinagar and would resume functioning for the six-month stint early next month. “This government is an outright failure on all fronts,” Rather said.
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