SHOPIAN KILLINGS: Police register FIR after Mehbooba threatens stir
SHOPIAN; 19, Sep 2013: Jammu and Kashmir police Wednesday registered a First Information Report into the killing of youth in Shopian district recently after opposition leader Mehbooba Mufti threatened to hold a sit-in protest in the curfewed town, a press release of the Peoples Democratic Party said on Thursday.
PDP president Mehbooba was today assured by the DIG South Kashmir that the shifting of CRPF camp from Gagren would start from Friday morning. She visited the district head quarter today and told the administration that she would sit on an indefinite dharna in the centre of the curfewed town till the two demands made by the people are met: the shifting of Gagren camp and registering of FIR in the shooting incident that killed four boys on 7th of September, the press release said.
The superintendent of police met the PDP president at the government guest house (circuit house) and promised that FIR would be registered by this afternoon, but Mehbooba insisted that she would not leave the town unless the FIR was registered and its receipt handed over to the father of Tawseef-- one of the victims of CRPF firing, it said.
The family had been pleading for the last twelve days with the police to accept their FIR but the police had avoided to do so.
Later Ghulam Mohammad Bhat father of Tawseef received copy of the FIR from police, Mehbooba met him and his brother Ali Mohammad Bhat and conveyed her condolences to the family, the press release said.
The PDP president had earlier also attempted to visit Shopian but had been prevented by the administration from proceeding to the besieged town.
Later the DIG South Kashmir Vijay Kumar met the PDP president and discussed with her the shifting of CRPF camp from Gagren which has been a source of trouble for the entire area for several years.
There have been numerous complaints of serious human rights violations against the camp ranging from torture, illegal custody and enforced disappearance.
Mehbooba, according to the release, told the DIG that since the state government had totally lost the credibility in the eyes of the people, therefore unless shifting process of CRPF is started, people would not believe it to be true.
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