Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 5: The family members of a youth Tabish Nazir of Shopian today alleged that police have framed false charges against their son by connecting him with the July 18, Amshipora, Shopian encounter.
“On August 12, our son Tabish Nazir was picked up by army first and then he was handed over to police. When we failed to trace our son, we went to DPL Shopian where a DySP Wajahat Ahmed, tore our missing complaint and instead asked me to sign on a blank paper,” alleged Nazir Ahmed Malik, father of Tabish.
The family staged a protest demonstration here in the Press Colony.
“The DySP told me that he saved Tabish otherwise our son was to be branded as a militant,” Malik said.
He said now all of a sudden his son is being linked with the July 18, Amshipora, encounter on the pretext that “he gave information to the army about three militants, which is a baseless charge,” his father said.
The mother of the youth asked how come he is being connected with the Shopian encounter.
“The fact is that my son is a labourer and he was picked up by the army first and then handed over to the police. Now he is being deliberately linked with the Amshipora encounter,” she said.
Our son is innocent and has no link with the Amshipora gunfight, the family said.
They requested LG to look into the matter.
Pertinently, the bodies of three Rajouri youth were exhumed on Saturday and handed over to their families.
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