The leaders of the Peoples’ Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) slammed the special investigation team (SIT) probing the Hyderpora encounter after it threatened to take legal action against political leaders for making “speculative” statements about the investigation.
Calling the SIT report wrong, National Conference (NC) chief Farooq Abdullah demanded a judicial inquiry. “I believe that the police report is wrong. The police have done it to save themselves. Police killed them and there is no doubt about that. I believe a judicial inquiry should be conducted,” he said.
The SIT ordered by the police to probe the Hyderpora encounter has given clean chit to the security forces in the encounter that took place in the Hyderpora area of Srinagar city on November 15.
Four persons including three local residents and a Pakistani terrorist were killed in that encounter.
Reacting to SIT’s legal threat, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti said, “Bullying us into silence by penal action warnings will not work.”
Earlier today, NC vice president Omar Abdullah criticised the SIT probe saying that it does not behove the Jammu and Kashmir police to be trying to threaten people into submission.
“If the SIT wants people to believe the report it should report the truth, period,” Abdullah wrote on Twitter. “As to the “threat of penal action”. Criticising the report, whether interim or final is the right of any citizen and it does not behove J&K police to be trying to threaten people into submission, he said.
