The family members of a youth Tabish Nazir, a resident of Sugan in Shopian staged a protest in Srinagar and alleged that police had framed false charges against their son by connecting him with the killings of three Rajouri youth on 18 July by the army in Amshipora.
“On August 12, our son Tabish Nazir was picked up by army first and then he was handed over to police. When we failed to trace our son, we went to DPL Shopian where a DySP Wajahat Ahmed, tore our missing complaint and instead asked me to sign on a blank paper,” alleged Nazir Ahmed Malik, father of Mr. Nazir, while protesting at press colony Srinagar, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO).
Mr. Malik said being an illiterate, he had to sign on a blank paper without knowing the reason. “The DySP told me that he saved Tabish otherwise our son was to be branded as a militant,” Mr. Malik said. He said now all of a sudden his son is being linked with the 18 July, Amshipora “gunfight” on the pretext that “he gave information to army about three militants, which is a baseless charge.”
Mr. Nazir’s mother said that her son is being framed and is under detention since 12 August. “How come he is being connected with the Shopian encounter? The fact is that my son is a labourer and he was picked up by the army first and then handed over to police. Now he is being deliberately linked with the Amshipora encounter to save those who killed three innocent labourers from Rajouri,” she said, amid tears.
His aunt and other relatives demanded immediate release of their son stating that “LG Manoj Sinha must intervene and find out what is truth.”
“Our son is innocent and has no link with the Amshipora gunfight. Now under a proper plan, he is being accused of something he has never done only to save army men who killed innocent Rajouri labourers,” the protesting relatives of Tabish, told KNO. “Our son was presented in the court without any information about us. He is being made a scapegoat to save others. This is ultimate oppression. Tabish was under detention since past 50 days and now all of a sudden he is being linked with the Amshipora gunfight.”
Earlier, the bodies of three Rajouri youth were exhumed on Saturday and handed over to their families. The trio was laid to rest in Rajouri. The army had admitted that its men had exceeded the powers under AFSPA and police probe had found no militant link of killed trio. (KNO)
