Mehbooba raps Omar over illegal detention

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Abu Sheikh

02 March, 2011

Party President Mehbooba Mufti in a statement today rejected the Chief Ministers observation that the age of Faizan from Islamabad, Anantnag needed to be medically verified as according to him the 'certificates were fake in most cases'.

TERMING AS bizarre the response of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to the imprisonment of 14 year old Faizan and other youngsters under PSA, PDP today said Chief Minister was trying to discredit the established systems like that of age certification to prove himself correct.

The Party President Mehbooba Mufti in a statement today rejected the Chief Ministers observation that the age of Faizan from Islamabad, Anantnag needed to be medically verified as according to him the “certificates were fake in most cases”.

Mehbooba said it was no less than a misfortune for the state that a chief minister, who is blissfully disinterested in what he has made out of a state that was on its way to peace and defiant in blocking any probe into the killing of 117 unarmed civilians at the hands of his security forces should call for investigating the age of a schoolboy, a victim of his government in any case.

She said the Chief Minister of a state could not be more insensitive than that in questioning the juvenile status of a class 10th student just to defend the indefensible action of his government putting a minor in jail for two years without trial or any proven charges. Faizan, she said was in any case not a lone victim of brazen atrocities by a state apparatus that is out to cage an entire people on a filmsy pretext that “some thing was brewing against it in the coming summer”. She reiterated that this was a sure way of destabilizing the situation in Kashmir and upset lives of ordinary people.

PDP president said the present government had willfully unleashed a reign of terror on all fronts and the state was once again witnessing incidents and developments that reminded one of the situation prevailing before 2002.