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| Can they continue throwing grenades and blame India for making defective gas cylinders? | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 31: Finally the media bashing of the State Government has proved to have been misplaced. The new found relationship of being on the same page with the Kashmiri separatist leaders has also proved to have been misplaced, ill-conceived and short-lived.
It was not a gas cylinder that killed 3 tourists and injured four in Bijbehara on July 28. It was a grenade explosion and hiding the truth could have serious and far reaching consequences.
The sequence of tragic events on July 28 needs to be re-told to set the record absolutely straight.
The first report said there had been an explosion in Bijbehara involving a vehicle carrying either Yatris or tourists. Immediately afterwards, the first version was corrected. A Tempo Traveler carrying elderly lady tourists from Mumbai had been attacked with a grenade in which two lady tourists had died and five had been injured. Before the third victim collapsed to injuries, the State Administration had swung into damage control.
SMS messages were flashed, 'friendly scribes' were contacted to 'kill' the initial reports. The standard official version had been hastily prepared and dished out. It was a gas cylinder that had exploded inside the vehicle and all media reports speaking to the contrary had been "factually incorrect and motivated."
Private television news channels were told they would have to face legal action for "misreporting and subverting facts that could have a serious fall-out on the ongoing Shri Amarnathji Yatra and the booming tourist season in the Valley."
Unfortunately for those who planned to "kill truth" facts started trickling out slowly but surely. None of the injured had any burn injuries as would have invariably happened if there had been a gas cylinder explosion in the vehicle. The vehicle did not catch fire nor did its upholstery etc. burn as must happen after a gas cylinder explosion.
The driver of the vehicle said in unmistakable terms that something was thrown into the vehicle which immediately exploded with a loud report.
Official version had also quoted one of the so-called injured ladies as saying that a gas cylinder explosion inside the vehicle over which the occupants were making tea had exploded.
The mysterious "eye-witness victim" seems to have disappeared now. When JKLF chief Yasin Malik went to express sympathies with the injured at the Soura hospital, he came out red-faced after one of the injured told him that they did not carry any gas cylinder in the vehicle and something had been thrown in from outside which exploded and caused the tragedy.
Strange that some persons at the top should have decided that the truth must not be told or that it must be withheld for a while. The Forensic Science Lab experts, the doctors who attended the injured tourists categorically asset it had been a grenade explosion while State Administration agrees with the separatists.
The attending doctors and experts of the FSL have no doubt that it had been a grenade explosion. The separatist leaders and the State Administration has no doubt or at least lets people believe it hasn't, that it was a gas cylinder explosion.
The net result is that those highly condemnation elements who threw the grenade into the tourist vehicle and caused death and injuries to innocent, old-aged ladies must be laughing. If the dangerous trend to hide the truth continues, these elements could go on lobbing grenades and blaming India for making defective gas cylinders! |
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