PDP chief Iltija Mufti on Monday claimed that two of her private safety officers (PSOs) had been suspended allegedly for failing to forestall her from visiting the household of a Kathua man who died by suicide after accusing police personnel of torturing him.
“Two of my PSOs had been suspended for no fault of theirs,” Iltija stated exterior her workplace in Jammu.
On Sunday, she had met the household of 26-year-old Makhan Din in Kathua’s Billawar. He died by suicide final week after placing out a video during which he alleged that he was tortured in police custody in an effort to make him confess to having hyperlinks with militants.
After assembly the household, Iltija was allegedly confined at Circuit Home in Jammu for over an hour by police personnel, sources stated.
On Monday, she stated authorities had been fast to droop her PSOs however there was no motion in opposition to the SHO of the police station the place Makhan Din was allegedly tortured.
She stated the SHO “has unfold terror and extorted cash from harmless youth”.
“The locals advised me that those that fail to pay are labelled overground employees (a time period used to explain militant sympathisers and supporters),” Iltija Mufti stated.
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She additionally criticised each Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Union Minister Jitendra Singh – the MP from Udhampur seat, below which Kathua is positioned – for not taking on the difficulty of the alleged custodial torture and suicide of Makhan Din.
In the meantime, a gaggle of legal professionals, led by former J&Okay advocated common Mohammad Aslam Goni, on Monday demanded the instant registration of an FIR and a CBI investigation into the matter.
Goni referred to the allegations of torture made by Makhan Din within the video earlier than his demise as a “dying declaration” and argued that it was ample for the registration of a legal case in opposition to these he accused.
He referred to as the magisterial probe ordered by the Kathua district administration as a “cover-up train”.
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Whereas the magisterial probe shall be performed by a naib-tehsildar, the police division has ordered a departmental enquiry to be performed by the DIG of Jammu, Samba and Kathua vary.
The previous advocate common additionally questioned the credibility of such an in-house enquiry. Referring to a number of judgments of the Supreme Court docket on custodial torture, he stated that solely an neutral and impartial probe would “unmask the bigger gamut of the sport”.
