‘Godman’s purified water’ kills one in south Kashmir, made six others unconscious

KL Report

SRINAGAR

In a shocking incident, all the family members in South Kashmir’s Tral town were found unconscious while one of them later breathed her last after a self-styled godman reportedly offered them purified water to drink during night long ‘Sufiana musical party’. Ironically, the self-styled godman was also found unconscious and all were referred to SMHS hospital for treatment.

According to CNS, on the invitation of a PDD employee Fayaz Ahmed Dar, a self-styled godman from Zechbal Laam hamlet of Tral town Nazir Ahmed Gojar visited the house of Muhammad Shaban Shiek resident of Bohu Awantipora to ward off some ‘evil forces’ from the body of Shiekh’s wife.

Locals said that the family members entertained self-syled godman with ‘Sufiana music’ and ‘whole night the ‘peer sahab’ made all the family members to dance on his tunes and signals. “One of the family members was not feeling well and so one of the family friend from Ganaigund Tral who happens to be the employee of Power Development Department invited ‘peer sahab’ to the house and accordingly the family members threw a ‘sufiana musical party’ for him. Everything was alright but we were shocked to see early in the morning that all the family members including ‘peer sahab’ and government employee were unconscious,” one of the locals told CNS.

One of the family members, a 14 year old girl Roohi Jan daughter of Muhammad Shaban Shiek was found dead while others who were referred to SMHS Hospital Srinagar in miserable condition were identified as Muhammad Shaban Shiekh, Hasina Bano wife of Abdul Aziz Shiekh, Shakel Ahmed Shiekh, Tanvir Ahmed Shiekh, Fayaz Ahmed Dar and self-styled godman Nazir Ahmed Gojar.

A police official told CNS that they are waiting for the postmortem report and police have already initiated proceedings under section 174 of RPC. “We will question family member once they will be stable and regain conscience. After that the things will be clear and it would help police to go ahead with proper investigation,” the official said.