Srinagar: The inquiry officer, probing into the killing of youth by police in Kangan, on Thursday issued a notice calling upon witnesses to depose before him.
“It is to inform the witness(es) to the incident/ all the interesting persons/general public having knowledge of the incident, to get their respective statements recorded before the undersigned by or before 12-04-2019 during office hours (10 a.m. to 4pm in my office at Mini Secretariat Ganderbal Room,” reads a notice issued by Syed Shahnawaz Bukhari, Additional Deputy Commissioner Ganderbal who was appointed an inquiry officer by the deputy commissioner Ganderbal Piyush Singla . He has been asked to submit a detailed enquiry report as per Supreme Court and NHRC guidelines within 20 days.
22-year-old youth, Gowhar Ahmad Rather succumbed to injuries on Tuesday after battling for life for about 20 hours at the Intensive Care Unit of SKIMS Soura.
He had sustained grave injuries in police action at Kangan in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district at around 6:25 p.m. He was buried at around 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.
