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Naidkhai Incident 5 Persons Booked for ‘attempt to murder’
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Slain teenager, 4
Muslim League activists booked for ‘attempt to murder’
Srinagar: A teenage boy who was shot dead
last week in Kashmir’s Naidkhai town, along with four Hurriyat Conference
activists, have been booked for attempt to murder, sources said on
Saturday.
Police had said that a group of youth had attacked a
police vehicle on March 14 and they had fired in air in self defense. Farhat
Ahmad Dar, 18, had received a bullet in his heart, during the protest and had
died while on way to hospital.
Police on Saturday booked Dar and four Hurriyat
Conference activists for attempt to murder in north Kashmir’s Bandipora
district.
Official sources told GNS that on March 14, last week,
the personals of Indian Reserve Police (IRP) of 8th Battalion fired upon a
group of protesters who tried to set ablaze their vehicle in Main Chowk
Naidkhai. The FIR mentions that Dar was a part of the mob that tried to set
ablaze a police vehicle.
In the firing incident, Dar was killed while three others
had sustained injuries.
After the incident, police then lodged an open FIR
61/2014 under section 307 (attempt to murder) RPC and District administration
ordered probe and had appointed Additional District Magistrate as enquiry
officer.
“During the investigations, police booked Dar and four
Muslim League activists in the FIR for creating Law and Order problem after it
was revealed that a group of Hurriyat protesters was found involved in all the
mess,” a police official involved in the probe told GNS.
He identified the booked activists as Showkat Hakeem of
Rakh Hajin, Assadullah Parray of Hajin, Mehraj-ud-Din Nanda of Hajan, Sajad
Ahmad Nawoo of Naidkhai both activists of Muslim League – which is a
constituent of Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani. The official said that on the very first of the incident
an open FIR had been lodged in the incident and subsequently the charges under
section 307, 148, 149, 152, 336 and 427 RPC have been registered against the ML
activists. (GNS)
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