Police boasts of ‘martyrs’ but disowns their families

SRINAGAR:  Even as the new Director General of Police , K Rajindera has started off with a pledge to rehabilitate the families of those who die while fighting insurgents or during other actions, daughter of a slain Head Constable Mushtaq Ahmed Wani Tuesday showed up at the Press Enclave and narrated her families woeful struggle to get the promised benefits under SRO-43.  

Mushtaq Ahmed Wani was working in Jammu and Kashmir Police Department. In 2002 unidentified gunmen shot him dead while he was proceeding towards police station Shaheed Ganj where he had been deputed. The slain cop was survived by his wife and three little daughters.

“At the time of death of my father me and my two sisters were under twelve years of age. We were not qualified enough to be appointed against a compensatory vacancy under SRO-43,”  Subby Akhtar, 19, told reporters here saying that no official from the police department bothered to find out what state they were living in.

Shareefa Bano,  wife of the slain cop said that she wandered from pillar to post to get a compensatory job for one of her daughters, but all her attempts proved futile. “I gave up as every official directed me to visit this or that Officer’s office,” sharifa Banoo said adding that from past over a decade she and her three daughters are surviving on a meager pension of Rs 4000 per month.

Scores of family members of slain policemen have been hoping to get a “compassionate job” under SRO-43.

“I was just 8 when my father lost his life in Poonch Surnakot during an encounter in October 10, 2000. At that time, a file was put up wherein it was recorded that on attaining the required age, I will be provided job under the SRO-43, but nothing happened and I am still jobless,” CNS quoted Javid Ahmed Shah as said. 

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