Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and PDP President, Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said that Police had registered an FIR against the father of a youth killed in an encounter in December in Lawaypora.
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Mehbooba took to twitter and wrote; “After losing his son in an alleged fake encounter, Athar Mushtaq’s father has been slapped with an FIR for demanding his dead body. His crime was to stage a peaceful protest. The inhabitants of Naya Kashmir can’t even question a callous admin & have been reduced to living corpses (sic),” she tweeted.
After losing his son in an alleged fake encounter, Athar Mushtaq’s father has been slapped with an FIR for demanding his dead body. His crime was to stage a peaceful protest. The inhabitants of Naya Kashmir can’t even question a callous admin & have been reduced to living corpses
— Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) February 7, 2021
Pertinently, security forces in December last year, said three local militants were killed in an encounter at Lawaypora on the outskirts of the Srinagar city. However, Families of the three youths killed in the encounter identified as Zubair Ahmad of Turkawangam in Shopian, Ajaz Maqbool and Athar Mushtaq of Putrigam in Pulwama, claimed that they were students and had left their home day before encounter and alleged that they were picked up and then killed in an encounter.
