Youth falsely implicated in DSP lynching case, initiate unbiased enquiry, Malik to SHRC

Srinagar, Sep 18: Alleging that dozens of youth were falsely implicated for lynching Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mohammad Ayub Pandit in downtown Srinagar in June this year, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik today urged the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) initiating a fresh unbiased enquiry into the case.
      Meanwhile, two minors, who are arrested in the case, were granted bail by a local court on Friday.
      A JKLF spokesperson here this evening said that Mr Malik today met SHRC chairman Justice (rtd) Bilal Nazki and urged him to ‘use his good offices for saving the lives and careers of these youth so that no injustice is done to them’.
      The JKLF chief told the SHRC chairman that 15 incarcerated youth met him in central jail Srinagar recently when he was lodged there and narrated their stories of innocence in the lynching case.
      Mr Malik emphasized over the need of thorough investigation into the case and initiating a fresh unbiased enquiry.
      DSP Pandit was lynched outside historic Jamia Masjid on June 23 by an unruly mob attracting massive criticism from all sections of the society in the valley and rest of the country.
      The JKLF chief also urged the SHRC chairman to look into the case of ailing Syeda Asiya Andrabi and her associate Fahmida Sofi, who have been lodged in central jail Jammu.
      “Mr Malik also urged the SHRC chairman to look into the plight of thousands of inmates languishing in various jails and police stations and take a note of the use of black laws like Public Safety Act (PSA) against common people and peaceful political activists,” the spokesperson said. UNI