| Tyranny: Police resorts to canecharge, scores injured; several held | | Kalakot triple murder case | | Avinash Azad
Jammu, Sept 20: Over five dozen people, including women, were severely injured, when police canecharged people, who were protesting in support of their demand for a CBI probe into the much publicised Kalakot's triple murder case, at Siot Chowk today.
Angered by the police failure to work out the case, relatives of victims today held protest at Siot and blocked Jammu-Poonch road. In the meanwhile, a heavy contingent of police led by Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Nowshera, Rakesh Kumar reached the spot and started cane-charging and thrashing the protestors.
Family members and relatives of the victims - Urmila, her sister Nishu and cop Sanjay Kumar who that time was posted at Kalakote police station -- were brutally killed at Thermal Colony Kalakot on intervening night of July 27-28, 2014, were demanding a CBI probe into the alleged murders.
About 250 people including women and children gathered at Siot Chowk at about 10 a.m. and shouted slogans in favour of their demands. "They were relatives of Sanjay Kumar. Family and relatives of the dead girls were stopped at Solki by Dharmasal police and not allowed to move forward", said sources, adding that the protestors were thrashed without any reason.
While the cops beat them up, they did not retaliate, said a shopkeeper, adding that they were protesting peacefully.
Talking to Early Times, Sureshta Devi, elder sister of Sanjay, said that more than 60 people including women were injured and hospitalized at Sub-District Hospital, Nowshera.
"Police have picked several persons including Vidhi Chand, Pritam Singh, Kala Singh and Om Prakash and put them at different police stations", she said, adding that the police action had exposed the "real face" of police which is "authoritarian".
"We have every right to protest and police cannot gag our voice. This is unlawful," she asserted.
"We are demanding CBI probe. Police know reality of the case and are trying their best to hush it up. We are not demoralised. The today's police action has further united us. The police version of the incident is unacceptable to us," she said.
Sureshta said that they had run from pillar to post seeking justice for Sanjay who had served police department with dedication, but his colleagues were also behaving strangely. "If things remain unchanged, a colleague of Sanjay may be next victim of the killers", she claimed.
Defending police action, DIG Rajouri-Poonch Range, Ashok Kumar Attri said that the action was taken to open the road. |
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