SHOPIAN: Thirteen days after he was shot dead by the CRPF along with three others, the police has registered a First Information Report in the killing of Tawseef Ahmed Bhat.
This, only after the intervention of the main opposition People’s democratic Party, a local news agency, CNS, reports.
However the police have denied allegations of delay.
Bhat and three other were killed at Gagren village on September 7. Police have said he and two others were civilians and a government-ordered inquiry is still on to establish the identity of the fourth.
Bhat’s family had accused the police of deliberately not registering the FIR, despite repeated pleas.
However on Thursday, Mehbooba Mufti, president of the PDP, threatened to sit on an indefinite dharna.
She got the FIR registered and also handed over its receipt to the slain youth’s father.
But the Inspector General of Police, Abdul Gani Mir, has told another news agency that the FIR was registered on September 10, three days after the killings.
The PDP president had earlier also attempted to visit Shopian but had been prevented by the administration from proceeding to the besieged town.
The authorities have also assured her that the process of shifting the CRPF personnel from Gagren, where the killings took place, would begin soon.
She has also urged the district administration to lift the 13-day old curfew and restrictions immediately so that the people of the area are able to pick up threads of life again after the tragic incidents.
She said any prolongation in restrictions would result in severe economic damage to the area where the fruit trade has taken a severe hit at the peak season.
