Says Bihari Labourers Branded as Lashkar Militant
SRINAGAR: Refuting the police claims that one among the four youth killed in Shopian on Saturday was a Lashkar-e-Taiba militant, a senior Congress leader and former minister Wednesday said that the deceased was a Bihari labourer who had nothing to do with militancy.
Police claims are false. Being the resident of Shopian, I can tell you with authority that he was innocent, said Ghulam Hassan Khan.
That Bihari labourer was shot dead by CRPF men because he was the witness to their barbaric act. To shelve the matter, police buried him at an unknown place in the forest, Congress leader said.
Addressing a press conference in Srinagar, Khan said that CRPF men deployed in Gagrin Camp have let loose a reign of terror in the town and these men are not even sparing even the women and teenage girls.
CRPF men caught hold of a young girl, tore her clothes and thrashed her ruthlessly that she lost vision of her left eye, he said adding that people of Shopian were suffering immensely at the hands of security forces.
He said that it is the height of cruelty. CRPF men fired tear smoke shells on the house of one Prof Abdul Hamid in Shopian as a result his house caught fire and got damaged completely. This government is proving ineffective and is unable to curb these gun-toting security personnel, Khan said that CRPF men damaged at least 100 private vehicles parked on roads and peoples yards.
Former Minister said that government was trying to repeat what happened in Shopian in 2009. It was a shame for the government to claim that Aasiya and Neelofar died of drowning while the reality was that Rambiara Nallah was only knee deep at that time, he said.
Ghulam Hassan Khan appealed the government to shift the Gagrin CRPF camp without any delay. This camp is turning out to be a death camp for the people of Shopian and it should be removed immediately, he said.
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