Separatist-sponsored strike enters third day

Trouble started in Kupwara on Thursday,when family members of a second year student Aamina alleged that a jawan of Territorial Army Ashiq Hussain Peer assaulted her inside the house which caused her death at Dolipora,100 kms from here.

Police registered a case of murder and arrested the alleged prime accused Senior Superintendent of Police,Kupwara,Uttam Chand said.

The Deputy Commissioner Kupwara Showket Mir constituted a 11-member team of doctors for conducting postmortem of the body. A special three-members doctors team was requisitioned from Srinagar to conduct post-mortem of the deceased in a fair manner,report of which was awaited.

The Deputy Commissioner ordered closure of all educational institutions for two days in view of tense situation in the district.

Geelani who was arrested on June 6,was re-arrested on Thursday even after a local court ordered his release on bail,on charges of delivering “hate speech” five years back.

The Hurriyat Conference condemned the detention of Geelani as “unjust” and said “the administration has made mockery of the judicial system. Every time Geelani gets bail from the court,he is detained in a new case”,a spokesman of the Hurriyat said.

Angry over the killing of Asrar Mushtaq Dar,whose body was found on Wednesday,people demanded arrest and punishment to the culprits.

Dar,a resident of Maisuma locality of the city,went missing on July 3,when the area witnessed a violent clash between police and a stone-pelting mob protesting the killing of four persons in Baramulla town.

The family members of Asrar accused police of showing no seriousness in tracking the case. “Police did not show seriousness in tracking the case. It seemed as if they were looking for a pickpocket or a burglar”,Khurshid Ahmad,uncle of the murdered boy said.

From day one,police lacked seriousness to find him,they were preoccupied with other things. they gave preference to maintaining law and order than solving the case,he said.

Authorities have deployed policemen and paramilitary CRPF jawans on the roads to main law and order.