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| Mehbooba unreleating, says compromise on agenda | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 31- The delay in investigation of Shopian double rape and murder case in spite of the High Court directions has again created doubts about the intentions of the government said PDP Chief Mufti Mebhooba in a statement here today.
Calling for speeding up of investigation and making it more transparent, she said that action against officers involved in the cover up should not be the only objective of the probe. The ultimate goal should be to identify and punish the perpetrators of the dastardly act. Mehbooba said people of Shopian particularly and the citizens of the state generally could not be misled by any investigation that is not focused on punishing the guilty though it was also important that those suspected of cover up and destruction of vital evidence are also brought to the book.
Referring to the long chain of human rights abuse ever since the present government assumed office Mehbooba said it will have to put its act together to restore the shaken confidence of the people in the system. She said, the guilty in all the cases from Gupkar murder to Khigam, including Bomai, Kupwara, Bandipora and about a dozen murders
carried out by ‘unidentified gunmen’ need to be solved. Simultaneously, the law enforcing agencies must be made accountable for every excess committed on a hapless and harassed population.
The PDP President reiterated resolve of her party to push for demilitarization of Kashmir’s civil society, inhabited areas, governmental system and revocation of AFSPA. Unless that is done the democratic and civil institutions in the state could not
breath in an atmosphere of total liberty which is the essence of a constitutional system, she said. She said no amount of pressure or gagging efforts on the voices of dissent would work in the present scenario as people of the sate have chosen their representatives with an overwhelming mandate and expect them to deliver within the system. She said her party would continue to raise its voice against excesses of all kinds, denial of fundamental rights and developmental issues in all forums including the legislature.
Mehbooba said the attempts of the government to use strong arm methods, dictatorial attitude and violent methods to browbeat her party cadres would be met with strong resistance within and outside the state legislature.
Condemning the attacks on PDP leaders Muzaffar Hussein Baig and Molvi Iftikhar Hussein Ansari by the NC hooligans Mehbooba cautioned the government of grave consequences of such lawlessness. She said the party in spite of government’s repressive measures and unfounded propaganda would continue to voice the concerns of people and pursue its agenda adding that the issues it had been raising are of fundamental importance to the social, political and economic fabric of the state. The party, she said, would in no case compromise on them.
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