Srinagar: Kashmir High Court Bar Association on Friday demanded registration of murder case against the police driver who crushed a sixty-year-old man in Baramulla district of north Kashmir earlier this week for “resisting” son’s arrest by the cops.
“The Bar members condemn the killing of Abdul Aziz of Delina, Baramulla, a dailywager of a Food and Supplies shop and living in abject poverty; who while trying to free his son Tawseef from the clutches of police, who had raided his house unauthorizedly, was rammed by a police vehicle and crushed to death and demands that the driver who has committed the dastardly act be booked for murder and not for causing death by rash and negligent act because he has deliberately and intentionally caused the death of the poor daily-wager and be punished according to law,” the Bar Association said in a statement issued here.
Police has registered a case (FIR No 39 /2018 under section 304A against Driver Constable Abdul Ahad (2757/B) who was arrested soon after the incident as per a police statment.
On Thursday, people in thousands attended Ahangar’s funeral prayers amid pro-freedom slogans.
The lawyers body also strongly condemns the killing of innocent Muslims by Sinali Buddhists and damaging of their homes, business establishments and Mosques in riot-hit Kandy District of Sri Lanka and the failure of the police and other authorities to provide them necessary protection. The Bar requested the international community to intervene in the matter immediately and take appropriate measures to safeguarding the Muslim minority community in Sri Lanka and their properties.
