Parra being tortured, kept in inhuman situation: Mehbooba
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PDP chief says investigation in opposition to occasion youth president is ‘fraudulent and politically motivated’
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday alleged that the J&K Police was “torturing” the incarcerated PDP youth president Waheed Ur Rehmaan Parra and retaining him in “inhuman conditions”.
“Waheed is being persecuted and tortured to admit the false allegations. Since an admission didn’t happen, he is being kept under inhuman conditions. This investigation has been fraudulent and politically motivated from day one,” Ms. Mufti mentioned, in a tweet.
She mentioned the J&K Police’s CID wing had joined the record of Central companies “that work to terrorise Kashmiris and falsely implicate them”.
“After failing to substantiate charges against PDP’s Parra, the CID replaced the SIT (Special Investigation Team) head because he refused to be an accomplice in framing invented charges,” she alleged.
Describing the investigation in opposition to Mr. Parra as “politically motivated”, Ms. Mufti mentioned, “The institutions [that were] meant to uphold law and order bring disrepute by getting involved in these deceitful investigations. The norm dictating such deceitful investigations is ‘Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime’,” she added.
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Mr. Parra was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in November, 2019 “to investigate his alleged links with one of the two Hizbul Mujahideen militants arrested”. This 12 months, Mr. Parra, who was granted bail by an NIA court docket, was re-arrested by the J&K Police’s particular wing, Counter-Insurgency Kashmir (CIK), in a case associated to “militant-politician nexus”.
‘Solidarity with farmers’
Ms. Mufti mentioned she understood the ache and humiliation inflicted on farmers and stood in solidarity with them.
“The Government of India cannot and mustn’t be allowed to ram bills against the consent of people and ruthlessly run roughshod over those who oppose and protest,” she mentioned.
Drawing a parallel between the concertina wires and trenches dug round farmer protests in Delhi and the “worst siege” in J&K since August 2019, she mentioned the dimensions of suppression in J&K was unimaginable.
“The maze of wires, nails and trenches is combined with draconian laws, illegal detentions and massive troop deployment. Central agencies hound political leaders and businessmen, FIRs and UAPA [Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act] against journalists are methods adopted to choke dissent,” she added.