BANDIPORE: Scores of people staged a protest in Hajan area of Bandipore district against the alleged torture of a youth at the hands of a renegade in police station Hajan.
Soon after the protest, police released the youth and he was taken to hospital for treatment.
Protestors said that a youth from Naid Mohalla Hajan namely Muhammad Azharudin Dar son of Muhammad Akbar Dar was bailed out by court after he was arrested by police on charges of stone-pelting.
Azhar was called to police station again by Station House Officer Hajan on Friday where a government gunman and infamous renegade known as Tariq Mir aka Prina Nabid of Asham Safapora tortured him in presence of SHO.
It is irony that a police officer is using renegades to harass and torture innocent youth. We have right to know what a renegade is doing in a police station and why SHO allowed him to thrash Azhar mercilessly, PDP leader Yasir Reshi who was leading the protest said.
The protestors alleged that the youth was targeted on the instructions of a National Conference leader, as he is a relative of a PDP leader. The protestors further said that it was not only Azhar who was tortured in police station but another youth namely Showkat Ahmed Khan son of Muhammad Yousuf resident of Line Mohalla Shahgund was also beaten up by the said renegade in front of police officer.
Yasir Reshi alleged that the said youth was targeted for casting his vote in favour of PDP. This renegade belongs to National Conference and we condemn the police action for allowing any renegade to interrogate any youth, he said.
According to CNS, when SHO Hajan was contacted to hear his version he hung up the phone. All efforts to reach to other police officials did not materialize. However, a top police official said that it is political rivalry and nothing else. Such incident may have occurred and I will look into it to ascertain the facts, he said.
Meanwhile police sources said that an team has been constituted to probe into the allegations.
Sack SHO: PDP
Strongly condemning the alleged police highhandedness in Sonwari constituency Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Saturday demanded immediate suspension of SHO, Hajan, who according to party in league with the local lawmaker has unleashed reign of terror in the area.
In a statement a party spokesman said the SHO, Hajan, reportedly on the direction of the local MLA, has been summoning the youth to the police station on different pretexts from many days now.
He said the youth are being beaten and humiliated in the police station, not only by the police but by some National Conference goons also, which has made the entire population feel scared and is giving feel of the Ikhwan era like situation.
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