After Malik’s petition, SHRC directs Govt to shift DeM chief to Valley jail
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Tuesday said that the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has today directed the state government to transfer incarcerated chairperson of Dukhtaran I Millat Syeda Asiya Andrabi to any jail in Kashmir.
Earlier, the JKLF chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik had filed two petitions before the SHRC, demanding shifting of Asiya Andrabi to Kashmir jail and impartial investigation in the lynching case of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) Muhammad Ayoub Pandit. According to the statement issued here, the JKLF spokesman said that in another case relating to the petition, seeking impartial investigation in cases of 15 incarcerated youth implicated in Police officer Muhammad Ayub Pandit’s lynching, Additional Advocate General and CPO SHRC seek one week to file the report and case was listed for next hearing on 11-10.2017.
He said that Malik who is the petitioner in both these cases, himself presented before SHRC.
“From Government side, Additional Advocate General M M Khan and CPO Mumtaz Saleem were present in the court of chairperson SHRC justice Bilal Nazki who after hearing both the parties issued orders,” he said.
Meanwhile, Malik expressed his heartfelt grief and sorrow over the sad demise of Showkat Ahmad Rah of Kani Mazar NawaKadal who met an accident recently and breathed his last today.
JKLF Zonal president Noor Muhammad Kalwal participated in the funeral prayers of the deceased and expressed solidarity with his bereaved family especially his brother Tariq Ahmad Rah.
KV Correspondent
