Srinagar: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday visited family of a youth who was killed in police action at Kangan in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district earlier this week.
Accompanied by PDP MLC Yasir Reshi, Mehbooba met family members including Abdul Rehman Rather father of Gowhar Ahmad, the 22-year-old youth, who succumbed on Tuesday to injuries sustained in police action at Kangan. He was buried at around 2:30pm mid-night after district administration conceded to demands of the locals.
Mehbooba, who is the state’s Home ministry and head of the unified command, expressed sympathies with the bereaved family.
As soon as the people came to know about the Chief Minister’s visit, they took to roads and shouted pro-freedom slogans, reports said. After staying for about 15 minutes, Mehbooba left the place.
Gowhar succumbed to injuries on Tuesday after battling for life for about 20 hours at the Intensive Care Unit of SKIMS Soura.
Gowhar was buried in local ‘martyrs graveyard’ at 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday after district administration accepted demands of locals to register FIR against police, released youth arrested following clashes in the area and pay compensation to the bereaved family. Pending inquiry, the police have suspended a policeman who “prima facie” was involved in killing the youth from point blank range.
The district administration in Ganderbal has ordered the magisterial inquiry into the cause of death of Gowhar.
The deputy commissioner Ganderbal Piyush Singla appointed Bukhari as the inquiry officer and he has been asked to submit a detailed enquiry report as per Supreme Court and NHRC guidelines within 20 days.
