Distt admn denies allegations
Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Nov 4: A family from South Kashmir’s Shopian today held a protest along with the dead body of an elder person who had “died of cardiac arrest” during a land acquisition drive in Hermain village of the district yesterday.
The family members of the deceased emerged with the dead body in the Press Enclave here and alleged that the man did not die of cardiac arrest but was assaulted by some goons.
It is to be mentioned here that a land acquisition team had visited the area yesterday during which it was reported that some people resorted to stone-pelting and amid that the man Abdul Salam Thokar in his seventies died due to cardiac arrest.
However, the family is not ready to accept the circumstances of death that are being given out. They said: “He didn’t die of cardiac arrest but was assaulted by some goons on the behest of officials.”.
“We are not going to carry out his last rites till some action is taken against those who are responsible for his death,” the family said.
Meanwhile, District Administration Shopian clarified that the death of the elderly person has occured because of the cardiac arrest and is not connected to the events of Padderpora land issue.
The statement reads that some nefarious elements are trying to link the two events to advance their illegal case and the district administration denies the allegations in toto.
Abdul Salam Son, a relative of the encroachers and who was a long term heart patient suffering from Hypertension and was present in PHC Mohandpora in Kulgam district that day, passed away in the afternoon in the PHC and his dead body was later brought to DH Shopian in an ambulance for Postmortem.
Meanwhile, back in Padderpora, the encroachers escalated their violent resistance and started stone pelting on the team of officers following which they left the scene of the incidence to avoid any further violence. No levelling or encroachment destruction work could be undertaken by the team.
An FIR No.307/202 of 3-11-2020 u/s 452, 354, 506 & 427 of IPC was lodged in PS Shopian in connection with the stone pelting and violence undertaken by the encroachers.
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