Srinagar, May 19 (KNS): All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee (APSCC) has urged chief minister Mehbooba Mufti to ensure safety and security of women in the state irrespective of the community they belong to. The Committee has also demanded for a thorough probe in the disappearance of a Sikh girl from Srinagar.
In a statement issued to KNS, APSCC Chairman Jagmohan Singh Raina said that since Mehbooba is a woman she must ensure that there is no threat to the lives and honour of the women in the state. He said that confidence needs to be inculcated among the women so that they live without any fear whatsoever.
“On 11th of this month a Sikh girl went missing after she did not return home from Government College for Women, Srinagar. An FIR was lodged in Shergarhi Police station and many officials from police and administration were approached, but till date the girl is yet to be traced. It is important that the CM orders for a thorough probe in the matter so that the girl is found out at the earliest,” said Raina.
The APSCC Chairman said that from the residence of the girl some documents were recovered that indicate that she might have been trapped by religious conversion.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp ChannelHe said the disappearance of the girl has raised serious questions over the loopholes in the system adding that the government shall be responsible for all the consequences thereof.
“It is a matter of concern that exploitation of girls and women in the valley irrespective of the community they belong to has been going on. This all needs to be seen seriously by the first woman chief minister of the state. The inaction of the people at helm has raised fingers on police and administration as they play politics like politicians of the state,” said Raina.
The APSCC while referring to the case of Handwara girl said that no professionalism is visible. He said that there is no consistency in the issue and the statements get changed on daily basis. He said the police has failed to nab the people who killed a Sikh lady namely Kundan Kour in Baramulla on October 27, 2015. (KNS)