Alleging that J&K CID has joined the list of central agencies that work to terrorize Kashmiris and falsely implicate them, former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said that PDP leader Waheed-ur-Rehman Para is being persecuted and tortured so that he admits false allegations.
Ms Mehbooba, who is the president of PDP, said that the J&K CID replaced the SIT head because he refused to be an accomplice in framing invented charges (against Para). “J&K CID has joined the list of central agencies that work to terrorise Kashmiris & falsely implicate them. After failing to substantiate charges against PDP’s @parawahid. CID replaced the SIT head because he refused to be an accomplice in framing invented charges,” Ms Mehbooba wrote on micro-blogging site twitter.
“Waheed is being persecuted & tortured to admit the false allegations,” she said.
The PDP president said that since an admission didn’t happen he (Para) is being kept under inhuman conditions. “This investigation has been fraudulent & politically motivated from day one,” she tweeted.
“The norm dictating such deceitful investigations is ‘Show me the man & I’ll show you the crime’. Shameful & appalling that these actions discredit & bring disrepute to the institutions meant to uphold law & order,” she added.
Para was arrested by National Investigation Agency (NIA) about five days after he filed his nomination paper for District Development Council (DDC) DDC seat from Pulwama. However, he won after his family members and other PDP leader campaigned in his favour.
Nearly one-and-a-half month after his arrest by the NIA on charges of alleged terror links, Para was on January 10 granted bail by Special Judge Sunit Gupta, holding that “offences, particularly falling under Unlawful Activities Act (UAPA), are not prima facie made out against the applicant/accused”.
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