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| Qarra's son, Babu's driver on rampage | | Wahid Hamid Qarra attacks SHO Nageen with sharp weapon | | Jammu, Aug 17: In two isolated incidents bringing embarrassment for their masters, the son of a senior minister and driver of a Minister of State went on rampage under the influence of brute power.
Son of Finance Minister Tariq Hameed Qarra was arrested for allegedly assaulting a Station House Officer (SHO) of Jammu and Kashmir police with sharp edged weapon in Hazratbal area, on the outskirts of Srinagar city, this afternoon. Police sources, quoting eyewitnesses, said that the Wahid Hameed Qarra, son of the minister, turned furious on SHO Hazratbal, after the later objected his car parking in no-parking zone.
Sources late this evening told the EARLY TIMES, that the Finance Minister Tariq Qarra later called up the Director General of Police, that his son should be treated as an ordinary offender under the rules of law. "The Minister told the DGP that his son should not be spared for being his son", a senior police officer told EARLY TIMES.
This is second time, in last one year, when son of a PDP minister has been arrested by the police. Earlier, this year son of forest minister Qazi Muhammad Afzal was arrested by the police for assaulting senior officers of PDD.
According to witnesses, "the accused slapped the SHO and attacked him with a butcher knife, which he brought from an adjoining shop". He said that the SHO suffered grievous injuries in the attack and was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital. The accused was overpowered by the Personnel Security Officers (PSOs) of the SHO and lodged in Nageen police station, sources added.
In a separate incident, the driver of the Minister of State for Youth Affairs, Babu Singh attacked a vegetable vendor in Bishnah. It all happened over a trivial issue, sources said. The accused has been booked for the case.
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