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| Hurriyat leader Aziz was not killed by police: Govt | | | New Delhi | Aug 30
The government on Saturday insisted that senior Hurriyat leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz was not killed in police firing during a protest march in Kashmir, rejecting allegations in this regard made by some sections in the state.
National Security Adviser M K Narayanan said the Hurriyat Conference was aware that police did not kill Aziz but it would "never admit" it.
"The fact of the matter is... it was certainly not the police. He (Aziz) was shot in the back," Narayanan said in Karan Thapar's 'Devil's Advocate' programme on CNN-IBN when asked about the killing of the Hurriyat leader.
Justifying his argument, he said Aziz was shot in the back while police was in the front when the incident occurred in Baramulla during the Hurriyat-led 'March to Muzaffarabad' on August 11 in Jammu and Kashmir.
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Earlier, the Hurriyat had alleged that Aziz had been killed in police firing.
The National Security Adviser said the facts could have been "much clearer" if police had been able to conduct a postmortem on the body.
"They took the body away before there was a chance for postmortem. Then the fact would have been much clearer," Narayanan said. |
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