KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
A day after Jammu Kashmir Police claimed that they solved the case of a burning down of a government school in Kashmir by arresting five ‘stone-pelters’, the locals from Hamray and Tappar areas of North Kashmir’s Pattan town belied the claims of police and said that the accused were implicated in a fabricated case as according to them when Government Middle School at Tapper village went into flames, the incarcerated youth were ‘present’ in their homes.
Eyewitnesses told news agency CNS that the locals from Hamray and Tappar Villages on Friday staged massive protests and accused police of twisting facts about school burning incident.
The family members of the arrested youth who were part of the protests claimed that police implicated five youth in a false case while the reality is that they have nothing to do with school burning incident in the Tappar area.
Pertinently, police on Thursday claimed that they arrested five youth involved in school burning incident.
Police identified some of the accused as Ajaz Ahmad Parra, Omar Parra alias ‘Omar Kasaie’, Shabir Pandit alias ‘Bulbul’ and Bashir Ahmad Hajam.
“These youth have been made scapegoats. Police were under tremendous pressure and to ease this pressure they apprehended innocent youth and labelled them as conspirators,” the protesters said and castigated police for “labelling” these youth as stone-pelters.
Meanwhile, SSP Baramulla Imtiyaz Hussain said that they have “sufficient” proof to prove the crime committed by these youth. “We even recovered combustible material from their possession,” he said.
