Police refutes Geelani’s blackmail charge

Baramulla: A day after Syed Ali Geelani alleged police of committing excesses in Baramulla town, Deputy Inspector General of Police North Kashmir Range Ghulam Hassan Bhat Friday appealed the octogenarian leader to reveal the identity of that particular police officer who according to Geelani is harassing youth in the town and is allegedly forcing them to provide him mobile numbers of female folk.

Geelani had Thursday alleged that a particular police officer from North Kashmir’s Baramulla town after arresting ‘innocent’ youth on the charges of stone-pelting seeks mobile numbers of females from them and later on allegedly call them during late hours and harass and annoy them.

“Syed Ali Geelani should disclose the name of that police officer. He can reveal his name by any means and I assure him that departmental inquiry under law would be initiated against that officer and if proved, action would be accordingly taken,” DIG North Kashmir said adding that Deputy Commissioner Baramulla has already made it clear that not a single person from Baramulla approached him with regard to alleged harassment they are facing at the hands of a particular police officer.

DIG Baramulla while refuting the allegations leveled by Geelani that police is committing excesses in Baramulla said that those days passed when police was using stick and other means. “Police neither beat any accused physically nor it indulges in torture. Geelani alleged that some Ashiq Qadir could not stand properly because of police thrashing but the fact is that the accused is a healthy person and he is fit and fine in the lock up. He can himself talk to that accused to know the reality,” Bhat said.

He appealed people to approach him if they have any grievances or complaints with regard to any police official. 

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