Noor Bagh Youth can't walk again in Life despite Extensive Surgery: Doctors
SRINAGAR; 05, Aug 2013: Twenty-two-year-old Jan Muhammad Khanday will have to spend the rest of his life bed-ridden because of a police officer who, he says, flung him down one floor during a crackdown on stone-pelting.
Having denied involvement in the brutal act, the police has nevertheless surreptitiously offered him Rs 2 lakh to buy his silence, a deal spurned by the family.
The stricken Noor Bagh youth is at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) with severe spinal injuries, and doctors say he will never walk again, despite extensive surgery.
From a hospital bed, with his lower body totally paralyzed, Khanday says he had nothing to do with the violence the police were tackling in his locality during recent disturbances over the Ramban killings.
“I was returning home from work,” the crippled young man says, recalling what befell him on July 19. “The stone-pelting was over at that time as the crowds had run away.”
“Suddenly the police caught hold of me. They started to beat me with canes and gun-butts,” he says.
“There were two of them, I know only one, Abdul Rashid, the Chowki Officer at Noor Bagh,” he says.
“I somehow managed to escape their clutches and ran to the terrace of a nearby house. But they pursued me there as well, thrashed me again, and threw me down one floor. I don’t remember anything after that.”
“Why me? When they knew that I was not a part of any stone-pelting incident? I wasn’t involved at all,” he says.
He has shown no improvement over the 12 days he had been at the SKIMS when the we talked to him, and doctors said that in addition to his immobile legs, he had serious blood clots in the head.
“He is unable to move. Right now he is stable, but he won’t be able to walk on his own even after surgery,” Dr. Sajjad, attending on Khanday, told.
The youth’s family says that the Chowki Officer, Rashid, had offered it Rs 2 lakh as “compensation” to keep mum.
“He did not come personally, but approached us indirectly,” says Khanday’s cousin, Bilal Ahmad Mir.
“What good would the money do us?” he adds. “He has crippled my brother for life. We have rejected the offer.”
Having denied involvement in the brutal act, the police has nevertheless surreptitiously offered him Rs 2 lakh to buy his silence, a deal spurned by the family.
The stricken Noor Bagh youth is at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) with severe spinal injuries, and doctors say he will never walk again, despite extensive surgery.
From a hospital bed, with his lower body totally paralyzed, Khanday says he had nothing to do with the violence the police were tackling in his locality during recent disturbances over the Ramban killings.
“I was returning home from work,” the crippled young man says, recalling what befell him on July 19. “The stone-pelting was over at that time as the crowds had run away.”
“Suddenly the police caught hold of me. They started to beat me with canes and gun-butts,” he says.
“There were two of them, I know only one, Abdul Rashid, the Chowki Officer at Noor Bagh,” he says.
“I somehow managed to escape their clutches and ran to the terrace of a nearby house. But they pursued me there as well, thrashed me again, and threw me down one floor. I don’t remember anything after that.”
“Why me? When they knew that I was not a part of any stone-pelting incident? I wasn’t involved at all,” he says.
He has shown no improvement over the 12 days he had been at the SKIMS when the we talked to him, and doctors said that in addition to his immobile legs, he had serious blood clots in the head.
“He is unable to move. Right now he is stable, but he won’t be able to walk on his own even after surgery,” Dr. Sajjad, attending on Khanday, told.
The youth’s family says that the Chowki Officer, Rashid, had offered it Rs 2 lakh as “compensation” to keep mum.
“He did not come personally, but approached us indirectly,” says Khanday’s cousin, Bilal Ahmad Mir.
“What good would the money do us?” he adds. “He has crippled my brother for life. We have rejected the offer.”
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