Srinagar, Nov 02 (KNS): Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir (JeI) on Wednesday said Indian forces personnel are badly involved in the blatant violations of the fundamental rights of unarmed Kashmiris with a nefarious design to crush the ongoing peaceful public movement started about four months back for achievement of the birth right ‘right to self-determination’. The two most vital fundamental rights of life and personal liberty of the civilians are most affected as in the last 116 days, nearly one hundred innocent persons mostly youth have been brutally killed, thousands badly injured including hundreds made blind and hundreds other made permanently disabled.
In a statement issued to KNS, JeI said thousands of people stand illegally detained under various draconian laws and these detainees are given an inhumane treatment in most of the jails and deprived of the basic amenities to which they are entitled to under the international laws as well as the jail manuals. The gory incident which happened on 1st of November, in the district jail Baramullah is the result o this atrocious attitude. When the detenues in this jail protested against the careless attitude of the jail authorities towards an ailing inmate crying in pain, the jail superintendent Mrs.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp ChannelRajni Sehgal, instead of providing medical care to him, called in the police force and ordered ruthless beating of the inmates and indiscriminate firing upon them, resulting in the injuries to a number of protestors.
JeI also expresses its deep anguish over the constant illegal detention of Advocate Zahid Ali in sub-jail Kothibagh, whose detention is quite unjustified and based on flimsy grounds under section 107 Cr PC. In order to prolong his unwarranted detention, his custody is changed from one police station to another. Initially he was arrested by police station Batamaloo and now his custody stands shifted to police station Shaheed Gunj. Police is procuring orders to keep in arrest without producing before the concerned Magistrate.
Jama’at-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir (JeI) while expressing deep sorrow over this lawlessness of Indian forces and police, appeals the Kashmir Bar Association, to take an effective legal course for stopping this state sponsored terrorism against the hapless people. (KNS)