Despite 'bail', Kashmir youth 'not released'
SRINAGAR; 27, Sep 2013: A family in Kashmir’s Old City Friday accused the police of not releasing their lone son despite a city court granting him a bail on Thursday.
Mushtaq Ahmad Sheikh, who hails from Old City’s Nowhatta, was granted a bail by Sadder court in Srinagar, but police didn’t release him, his family told.
However, police deny the charge. Mushtaq was arrested on September 19 on charges of stone-throwing. A mini-bus conductor by profession, he is a lone brother of seven sisters. After his arrest, his mother and sisters took to streets and held a sit-in demonstration to protest his detention. The area remained shut for two days.
“After Sadder court granted Mushtaq bail on Thursday, he was re-arrested by police outside the court and was taken to the office of Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) where he was kept for some time. We also went there, but initially police barred us from meeting him. Later, my mother and two sisters meet him,” says Mushtaq’s sister, Sakeena Sheikh.
She alleges police is threatening them. “They (police) tell us lodge another First Information Report (FIR) against him,” she says. However, the police categorically deny the family allegations and say they haven’t received any bail order. “We haven’t received any bail order yet,” the in-charge of Nowhatta police station, Showkat Ahmad, told an online news agency.
He, however, admitted that Mushtaq is currently in their custody.
Mushtaq Ahmad Sheikh, who hails from Old City’s Nowhatta, was granted a bail by Sadder court in Srinagar, but police didn’t release him, his family told.
However, police deny the charge. Mushtaq was arrested on September 19 on charges of stone-throwing. A mini-bus conductor by profession, he is a lone brother of seven sisters. After his arrest, his mother and sisters took to streets and held a sit-in demonstration to protest his detention. The area remained shut for two days.
“After Sadder court granted Mushtaq bail on Thursday, he was re-arrested by police outside the court and was taken to the office of Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) where he was kept for some time. We also went there, but initially police barred us from meeting him. Later, my mother and two sisters meet him,” says Mushtaq’s sister, Sakeena Sheikh.
She alleges police is threatening them. “They (police) tell us lodge another First Information Report (FIR) against him,” she says. However, the police categorically deny the family allegations and say they haven’t received any bail order. “We haven’t received any bail order yet,” the in-charge of Nowhatta police station, Showkat Ahmad, told an online news agency.
He, however, admitted that Mushtaq is currently in their custody.
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