SRINAGAR: More than a month after death of a 34-year-old man at Renji Pattan, police on Thursday claimed to have worked out the case by arresting his wife and another person, alleged paramour of the woman, in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
“On intervening night of 8/9th March one Mohammad Altaf Malik son Ghulam Rasool Malik of Seriwarpora son in law of late Abdul Razaq Ganie was found dead near his cowshed at Renji. He was later buried by family members,” a police spokesman said in a statement.
On 22 March, Altaf’s brother submitted application for initiating inquest proceedings as he and his family members were suspicious regarding the death.
HC Notice To Govt On Plea By Family Seeking FIR, Probe Report Into Kin’s ‘Custodial Death’
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir high court has issued notice to the government on a plea by a family from Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, seeking a copy of a magisterial enquiry report and filing of FIR into the alleged “custodial death” of their kin in September last year.
A bench of Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey has sought the response by May 12 after hearing advocate Shafaqat Nazir for the family which alleges that their kin, Irfan Ahmad Dar of Sidiq Colony Sopore, was killed in alleged police custody on the night of September 16 last year as against the official version that the 23-year-old’s body was found near a quarry at Tujjar-Sharief after he “escaped taking advantage of the darkness.”