 Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 10: The family members and relatives of yesterday’s shootout victims today protested against the Police department and blocked the road outside the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H).
Expressing resentment over yesterday’s gruesome killings at Phallian Mandal by a police cop, a large number of relatives and neighbours of the victim family today reached Bakshi Nagar and disrupted traffic movement for some time. They alleged that Police and Hospital administration were deliberately delaying the process of handing over the dead bodies to them.
“Police officers tried to provoke us by pushing us without any reasons”, said a boy whose parents and sister were killed yesterday. “In past, several incidents of similar nature have taken place in Jammu district alone, in which Police cops have killed their wife with service rifle, if the Police department had taken cognizance of misuse of official weapon by the cops, the yesterday’s catastrophe would have been averted”, he claimed, while taking to media outside the GMC&H this afternoon. “The murder of three persons was not a small thing, that too by Police personnel with his service rifle. But unfortunately, no one from the administration visited us”, he said adding that the administration was more concerned to find our faults during the protest, that’s why a large number of Police personnel were deployed here.
“Police officers were clicking my photographs, when I was talking to the media, they can kill me like my parents and sister, if yesterday’s cruelty with our poor family was not enough”, he said. Earlier, a large number of Police personnel were deployed outside the hospital to avoid any kind of law-and-order problem.
As hundreds of people including women boarded in Tractor Trolleys started reaching Bakshi Nagar to hold a protest to press the administration for fulfilling their demands. Meanwhile, the last rites of deceased Seema Devi, her parents Raj Kumar and Romesh Kumar took place in village Allora, Phallian Mandal.
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