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| Police registers case for ‘assaulting’ scribe | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Oct 15 : Police has registered a case against the Chairman of “Peace Foundation” Fayaz Ahmad Bhat for allegedly assaulting a scribe during a function in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Thursday.
“We have taken cognizance of the matter and subsequently lodged an FIR no 346/ 2011 under section 345 RPC and 506 RPC amounting to wrongful restraint and intimidating against the accused and his associates in Police Station Anantnag,” a police official said.
He said that action will be taken against the accused as per law.
Pertinently, members of the non-governmental organization “Peace Foundation” led by Bhat and Tauqeer Ahmad allegedly assaulted the Greater Kashmir Correspondent, Khalid Gul at Islamabad on Thursday when he was performing his professional duty.
According to Khalid, soon after the speakers addressed the gathering, he was waiting to interview those who spoke on the occasion exclusively, but for unknown reasons, members of the NGO led by Bhat Tauqeer pounced upon him and ruthlessly beat him up for covering the conference on ‘peace’.
The conference was attended by Governor NN Vohra, GOC SA Hassnain, parliamentarians Dr Mehboob Beg and Ghulam Nabi Ratanpuri, Minister for Social Welfare Sakeena Yeetoo and MLC, Bashir Ahmad Veeray.
Khalid said the NGO members objected to the covering of the event by the media and asked him to leave.
“As I refused, the NGO members caught hold of him and beat me to pulp. It was only after the intervention of police and other media persons covering the event that I was rescued,” Khalid told KNS.
“Following my refusal to leave the venue they pounced upon me and roughed me up. They also hurled abuses on me and threatened to kill me. Policemen who were there saved me from their clutches,” he added.
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