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| Why different yardsticks adopted in Chopra murder case and Haji Yousaf's mysterious death | | Police have different norms to deal different people | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 11: J&K police have different norms to deal with different people. This is what one can construe from the 2006 much publicised and tragic Raju Chopra family murder case and the 2011 suspicious death of Haji Yousaf. Business tycoon Raju Chopra, his wife Madhu, daughter Saloni, servant Sonu and driver Jagan Nath were murdered at their Trikuta Nagar residence in 2006. Police were under tremendous pressure for not working out the case.
In June 2011, they produced one Surinder Singh alias Kala Transporter in the court and recorded his statement under section 164-A of CrPC. He disclosed that in August 2006, ex-NC MLC Tirlochan Singh Wazir alias Tallo asked him to meet him at his residence in Gandhi Nagar. He alleged that when he went to his house next day, Tallo's brother Ajab Singh, Choudhary Nagar Singh alias Nago, Sanjay Sharma and Raju Simblia were sitting there and discussing the loading and unloading of cement at Jammu railway station. "Ajab said Chopra creates problems for them in loading and unloading of cement. Upon this, Nago said that Chopra was also creating problems in FCI work. Tallo and others then asked Sanjay Sharma to kill Chopra and his whole family and said that money would not be any problem in getting him eliminated. After some days, I came to know that Chopra family had been eliminated," Kala deposed before the court.
On the basis of Kala's recorded statement, Tallo and others were arrested in the Chopra family murders.
Now, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and ex-IGP (crime) Raja Aijaz Ali have been levelling allegations and counter-allegations in the mysterious Haji Yousaf death.
In a public rally at Uri on December 4, Omar claimed that Yousaf had died in the custody of then IGP (crime) Aijaz Ali, now a PDP leader. "After coming to know about the murky deals of Yusuf, I handed him over to the IGP and he died in his custody," he claimed.
Raja Aijaz hit back on December 5 when he accused the Chief Minister of trying to brazen out the accusations against him saying "no matter how clean imaged Omar may try to present himself, he will always stand out in history as the main accused in the Haji Yousuf case."
Both Omar and Aijaz have publicly accused each other of their alleged involvement in the death of Haji Yousaf. The Haji's family has also demanded the registration of a murder case in his hitherto mysterious death.
The question that arises now is why are police silent in the case? They must follow the legal course by recording the statements of the two "bigwigs" and then present them in the court of law. The statements of both of them or either of them can also be recorded in the court of law under section 164-A of CrPC as was done in the case of Raju Chopra family murders.
If his was a natural death, why are the two have been blaming each other now for his end? Let police not be cowed down by any political pressure and do whatever legal was possible in the case. This is also must to restore confidence of the people, especially of the Haji's family, in state police.
If Omar's statement that Yousaf died in police custody is taken as correct, doesn't it mean that the government was responsible for his death? Doesn't the responsibility of punishing the guilty lie on the chief minister for being the head of Home Department?
Aijaz said, "Omar is acting like a child and I pity his wisdom. Yousuf was for 20 minutes with the Crime Branch and during that period they approached magistrate to seek his remand. Instead of following the set procedure by involving the concerned institutions, Omar called a person to his residence to seek the account of dirty money collected from party aspirants in lieu of MLC and ministerial berths, which will never be erased from the family history of Abdullah household. By all accounts the death of Yousuf is linked to money and serves as the worst example of political corruption patronised by the NC leadership for the last eight decades in the state and Omar will have to answer for all his omissions and commissions and serious corruption charges against him. The death of Yousuf needs to be thoroughly and fairly probed. Nobody is above law and guilty should be forced to face the law of land." |
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