Srinagar: Kashmiri separatist leader and Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday said the “extra judicial killings and rights violations” in J&K “continues as the perpetrators are never brought to book.”
Mirwaiz was responding to two deaths since Wednesday in which a 25-year-old man, Makhan Din, died by suicide following alleged police torture and the shooting of a truck driver Wasim Ahmed by the Army in Baramulla on Wednesday night after he allegedly jumped a security checkpoint.
The two deaths have triggered an outrage with chief minister Omar Abdullah calling both the incidents unfortunate and should not have happened. Abdullah has taken up both incidents with the Centre and insisted they are “inquired into in a time-bound, transparent manner.”
Mirwaiz condemned the two incidents and said this “cycle will never cease until accountability is established and justice delivered.”
“After large scale arbitrary arrests throughout valley, deaths of two persons, one in Kathua of a Gujjar tribal youth Makhan Din by suicide after custodial torture, and the other in Sopore of truck driver Wasim Malla by shooting by forces during the past two days while highly condemnable is very disturbing,” Mirwaiz said in a post on X.
“The unfortunate saga of extra judicial killings and rights violations of people of J&K continues as the perpetrators are never brought to book. This cycle will never cease until accountability is established and justice delivered,” he added.
