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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 11: The Chief judicial Magistrate (CJM) Srinagar Tuesday ordered a magisterial enquiry into Wamiq Farooq killing. Wamiq, a student of 11th standard got killed in down town Srinagar when a tear smoke shell hit him in his head on January 31 this year. The killing evoked massive protests across Kashmir.
Accepting the petitioner's request for a magisterial probe into the killing, the CJM entrusted the enquiry to Judge Small Causes, Srinagar. The CJM's olrder has come as a big relief to the parents of the deceased student. Their efforts to get a case registered against the erring police official who fired the fatal smoke shell bore no fruit. Police station Rainawari and Nowhatta refused to entertain their complaint. Instead the police submitted a report (LGL/CL/2010/645) to the concerned SSP on February 19 and declared the deceased a habitual stone pelter.
The report also gave a clean city to the accused. The SSP later told the court that he had placed sub-Inspector Abdul Khaliq under suspension and had also ordered a departmental enquiry against him.
Rejecting the police report as ridiculous and aimed at shielding the culprits the aggrieved parents sought a direction for the police to register a case of murder against the accused. Two eyewitnesses, Shabir Ahmad Khan and Ghulam Ahmad Bhat of Rajouri Kadal, Srinagar were examined who told the court that the fatal smoke shell was fired when no stone pelting was going on in the area.
"When the fatal smoke shell was fired from a Gypsy JK02P/5912, the deceased was just fifteen meters away from the police vehicle", the witnesses said. "He was rushed to Soura Medical Institute (SKIMS) where he succumbed to his injuries.
One of the witnesses even asked the erring police official as to why he had killed the boy. "The accused talked to some one on his cell phone for quite some time. The call details can go a long way in establishing the crime", he said.
The CJM directed the enquiry officer to complete the enquiry within two months and submit the detailed report along with the statement of eyewitnesses in his court on July 15.
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