Srinagar, Feb 03 (KNS): Expressing solidarity with 27 yr old Muzzafar Ahmed Rather and his family who has been awarded death sentence by a Kolkata court Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that the institute of judiciary in India is time and again used by the Indian state to punish the people of J&K for their political views and aspirations. Mirwaiz said announcing death sentence to Muzzafar on flimsy grounds of "sedition" when there is no substantial evidence against him is a mockery of justice. More said same was done in the case of Muhammad Maqbool Bhat and Mohammad Afzal Guru in the name of “satisfying the collective conscience of the nation".
According to a statement issued to KNS, Mirwaiz who was supposed to lead a rally at Jamia Masjid against the death sentence as a part of the programme of the joint resistance leadership was put under house arrest just before he could leave for Jamia Masjid for Friday prayers.
Mirwaiz said such judgments are in keeping with the states policy to eliminate Kashmiris and to instill fear in them and terrorize them. Each day this policy plays itself out in one way or the other Incidents such as in Samboora, Pampore, where forces fired indiscriminately resulting in five young boys getting bullets in their legs and thighs and who are undergoing treatment at various hospitals. He added that residents of a house including women and children were fired upon at will by the forces, however, they were lucky enough to escape unhurt.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp ChannelMirwaiz said that the situation in Kashmir is such that people are at the mercy of occupational forces who represent the state authorities and have no accountability for their actions and people are not even safe within the four walls of their homes.
Mirwaiz said while this is the condition of people ,dramas for the chair are enacted amongst the squabbling collaborators whose role has been reduced to agents of occupation ,to consolidate and further the interests of the occupier and compound our suffering.
Meanwhile soon after the Friday prayers a protest rally led by Imam-e-Hai Syed Ahmad Naqashbani, Sufi Mushtaq Ahmad, Jaffar Kashmiri was taken out in solidarity with Muzafar Ahmad Rather and against the Mirwaiz’s house arrest. The rally was dispersed forcibly by using smoke shells and pepper gas in which many youth as well as two photo journalists were injured.
The spokesman while condemning the highhandedness of Govt forces against the devotees who had come to Jamia to offer prayers and were beaten mercilessly expressed solidarity with the victims including two photo journalists.
Hurriyat leaders Abdul Rashid Untoo and Abdul Majid Wani addressed Friday gatherings at Chinar Bagh Magam and Kani Devar Hawal respectively and condemned the death sentence of Muzafar Ahmad Rather.
Meanwhile spokesman strongly condemned the house of senior amalgam leader Engineer Hilal Ahmad War. (KNS)