Srinagar: The Kashmir High Court Bar Association on Sunday said that victims of braid chopping can’t be subjected to lie-detector test against their consent.
The lawyers’ body was reacting to Inspector General of Police Kashmir that the “police will take blood and sweat samples of the victims and resort to lie-detector tests, to investigate the braid chopping.”
“It is as an affront to the honour, dignity, reputation, safety and security of the victims of hair chopping and besides clarifying that it is not permissible under law to subject a victim to such kind of tests against his/her consent,” a spokesman of the lawyers’ body said.
He said these kind of tactics were only an attempt to protract and delay the investigation of hundreds of FIRs registered in different police stations of Kashmir against the braid choppers, “some of whom have been caught red-handed and have been handed over to police for proceedings against them under law, but has of now, no one has been challaned in the Court of law.”
The Bar Association also strongly condemned the killing of an innocent civilian, Gulzar Ahmad Mir of Allaypora and injuring of more than twenty other civilians, by the forces by firing bullets and pellets on them, at Litter Pulwama on Saturday.
“The Bar Association also condemns the police action at Boniyar, Uri, where to rescue a braid chopper, who had chopped the hair of a lady, ransacked the houses of the residents of the area and besides thrashing them, also fired pellets of them, due to which 20 persons suffered pellet injuries and had to be referred to the hospital for treatment.”
The lawyers’ body also condemns the brutal beating given to five Muslims, who are currently receiving treatment in a hospital, by a mob of around one hundred fanatic Hindus, on the suspicion of carrying beef and also on their refusal to chant “Bharat Mata ki Jai” and “Jai Hanuman”, near Gosi village in Faridabad, Haryana.
The lawyers’ body asks the international community to take notice of these events, so as to ensure the safety of the Muslims living in India, who are day in and day out hounded and beaten on flimsy charges of carrying beef.
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