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| Juvenile detention irks Mehbooba | | `Current regime worst phase of JK history’ | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, March 2: Taking strong note of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s response to the imprisonment of 14 year old Faizan and other youngsters under PSA, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti accused him of insensitivity.
Mehbooba said the Chief Minister was trying to discredit the established systems like that of age certification to prove him self correct. She rejected the Chief Ministers observation that the age of Faizan from Islamabad Anantnag needed to be medically verified as according to him the “certificates were fake in most cases”.
Mehbooba said it was no less than a misfortune for the state that a Chief Minister should call for investigating the age of a boy when he has failed to probe killing of 117 unarmed civilians.
She said the Chief Minister of a state could not be more insensitive than that in questioning the juvenile status of a class 10th student just to defend the indefensible action of his government putting a minor in jail for two years without trial or any proven charges.
Faizan, she said was in any case not a lone victim of brazen atrocities by a state apparatus that is out to cage an entire people on a filmsy pretext that “some thing was brewing against it in the coming summer”. She reiterated that this was a sure way of destabilizing the situation in Kashmir and upset lives of ordinary people.
The PDP president said the present government had willfully unleashed a reign of terror on all fronts and the state was once again witnessing incidents and developments that reminded one of the situation prevailing before 2002. The grenade attack in Srinagar in which an innocent engineer lost his life, the killing of a contractor in Kreeri the other day or sodomization of a boy allegedly by a member of government forces in Marmat doda are only the latest wake up calls for the people of the state against the dark forces that historically surfaced during NC rule. She said personal tragedies were only mounting in Kashmir with thousands of boys falling into police net without any process of law and people losing lives in cases of encounters, mistaken identities, un-intentional firing, or at the hands of “unidentified gunmen”.
Quoting newspaper reports, She said many boys had fled the valley and were hiding in other parts of the country. “Some of them had to abandon their education or small occupations. An entire generation of Kashmiris was being targetted and demonised for rest of their lives by filing cases against them, spoiling their future and making their families cough up ransom money for release" she said calling it the worst phase in state's history.
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