Naeem Akhtar found unconscious in sub-jail room, hospitalised
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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief and former minister Naeem Akhtar, 68, was found unconscious in a sub-jail room in Srinagar and was shifted to a hospital.
His household has accused the administration of “maltreatment” and “prolonged detention without any case”.
“A senior police officer was kind enough to inform me around midnight that my father was in hospital after he was found unconscious for 40 minutes. He was saved by a whisker. I am grateful to his fellow detainees,” Mr. Akhtar’s daughter Shehryar Khanum advised The Hindu.
She stated it’s surprising there was no physician accessible to take care of him in the sub-jail of MLA Hostel. “What if it was a heart attack? Earlier, my father was kept in solitary confinement in a 45-room building, just to intimidate,” she added.
Mr. Akhtar, near PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, was first detained in August 2019 and later booked underneath the Public Safety Act (PSA), and launched in June final yr after 10 months of detention. He was once more arrested in December final yr underneath Sections 107 and 151, with the authorities fearing “breach of public order”, simply forward of counting of votes for the District Development Council.
The household claimed Mr. Akhtar, who has a coronary heart situation, was detained with out them being handed over any order until date.
“Every doctor with a degree and experience that I spoke to about my father’s condition is baffled at the need to keep a 68-year-old man with acute cardiac history in sub zero temperatures in a place that is not home,” Ms. Khanum stated.
Sources stated Mr. Akhtar was shifted to the Khyber Hospital. “He was admitted in the ICU and is under observation, but stable,” a health care provider stated.
The household stated it’s going through “ill treatment” and “humiliation” by the hands of administration.
Sources stated the household wrote a proper software to Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar, Dr. Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, final week and sought his assist to permit Mr. Akhtar to satisfy his ailing spouse in the hospital however the identical was denied.
“I did approach the district magistrate to allow my father to meet his wife, who was also admitted under serious conditions but the same was denied. It seems the administration is working above law and my father is being treated as a hardened criminal,” Mr. Akhtar’s daughter stated.
Meanwhile, hospital sources stated the Srinagar administration had launched an inquiry to seek out out if Mr. Akhtar’s spouse was unwell or feigning it.
