Day after visiting family of Kathua man whose suicide sparked uproar, Iltija Mufti says 2 of her PSOs suspended

On Sunday, she had met the household of 26-year-old Makhan Din successful Kathua’s Billawar. He died by termination past week aft putting retired a video successful which helium alleged that helium was tortured successful constabulary custody successful an effort to marque him confess to having links with militants.

After gathering the family, Iltija was allegedly confined astatine Circuit House successful Jammu for implicit an hr by constabulary personnel, sources said.

On Monday, she said authorities were speedy to suspend her PSOs but determination has been nary enactment against the SHO of the constabulary presumption wherever Makhan Din was allegedly tortured.

She said the SHO “has dispersed panic and extorted wealth from guiltless youth”.

“The locals told maine that those who neglect to wage are labelled overground workers (a word utilized to picture militant sympathisers and supporters),” Iltija Mufti said.

She besides criticised some Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Union Minister Jitendra Singh – the MP from Udhampur seat, nether which Kathua is located – for not taking up the contented of the alleged custodial torture and termination of Makhan Din.

Meanwhile, a radical of lawyers, led by erstwhile J&K advocated wide Mohammad Aslam Goni, connected Monday demanded the contiguous registration of an FIR and a CBI probe into the matter.

Goni referred to the allegations of torture made by Makhan Din successful the video earlier his decease arsenic a “dying declaration” and argued that it was capable for the registration of a transgression lawsuit against those helium accused.

He called the magisterial probe ordered by the Kathua territory medication arsenic a “cover-up exercise”.

While the magisterial probe volition beryllium conducted by a naib-tehsildar, the constabulary section has ordered a departmental enquiry to beryllium conducted by the DIG of Jammu, Samba and Kathua range.

The erstwhile advocator wide besides questioned the credibility of specified an in-house enquiry. Referring to respective judgments of the Supreme Court connected custodial torture, helium said that lone an impartial and autarkic probe would “unmask the larger gamut of the game”.