Srinagar: Kashmir High Court Bar Association on Wednesday termed Supreme Court of India’s decision, stopping police from taking ‘coercive steps’ against Army Major named in FIR by police into killing of three civilian teenagers last month, as “surprising” and blamed the state government for it.
“The Bar Association expresses its concern over the proceedings initiated by the father of Major Aditya Kumar in the Supreme Court of India and the failure of the State government to oppose his prayer for staying the Investigation of the case,” said the lawyers’ body said in a statement issued here.
“The Bar Association feels that the father of the army officer had no locus-standi in the matter as the FIR had not been registered against him and as such as per law he was not an “aggrieved person” who could file the petition before the Supreme Court.”
The lawyers body said that his petition was as such liable to be dismissed at the very threshold “but because of the fact that there was no one on behalf of the State government which had got the FIR registered to make such a submission before the Supreme Court, the case was not only entertained but the police and the State government was stopped from conducting further investigation in the case, which is extremely surprising.”
The lawyers’ body also strongly condemned the killing of Mohammad Yousuf Nadeem, a Hurriyat activist, who on Monday, while travelling in a vehicle was shot at and killed at Chahrangam, Beerwah, Budgam.
“The Bar Association demands that those responsible for the barbaric killing of Nadeem should be arrested and punished and a Special Investigation Team should be constituted for bringing the case to its logical end.
