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| Whose crime was serious –Sanjay Dutt's or Bitta Karate's | | |
NIRBHAY JAMMUAL
Jammu, Aug 2: When bollywood megastar Sanjay Dutt was sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment on the charges of possessing a weapon, the actor himself and millions of his fans across the country went into a shock but each respected the decision of judiciary –an institution of supreme importance in the country.
Interestingly and unfortunately, on the same day but thousands of miles away, in Jammu and Kashmir a court acquitted a former militant who was charged of much heinous crimes. A debate is now on in the informed circles about both the judgements. It is not the application of the mind of judges which is under discussion but it is the prosecution which has come under a scanner
Sanjay Dutt was jailed on two accounts: One that he himself a confessional statement that he possessed an illegal weapon, the second charge was that he roped in others to destroy the evidence. On the contrary, the former militant Farooq Ahmed Dar, known more by he assumed name of Bitta Karate, was acquitted by a similar court of trial as no evidence could be gathered against him.
"What is the question of evidence here? He openly killed many our community members. And when there was reign of terror who could have spoken against him in the court", said one Shyam Ji Bhat, a Kashmiri Pandit migrant while commenting on sentencing of Sanjay Dutt and acquittal of Bitta Karate.
As the case history goes, on July 19, 1989 Basharat Ahmed Noori presently running JKLF camps in the Pakistan as per the police report appeared before Police Station Shaheed Ganj Srinagar in injured condition and informed the Police that he got injured in a squabble with Batta Karate the previous day. A case of attempt to murder was registered against Karate on this complaint.
It took Police 15 years to make out a case against Bitta Karate when charges were framed and challan presented in 2005. However, when the case was listed in the court designated judge the file spoke nothing of the evidence as case was built up so weak and the witnesses had turned hostile. The accused was acquitted.
This was, however, one case against Bitta Karate. If one goes by the version of Kashmiri Pandit migrants they say that it was his reign of terror that most of them had to flee their homes for never to return.
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