KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
A 47-year-old man, resident of Aali Kadal Srinagar, allegedly beaten by para-military forces CRPF on Friday, who succumbed to his injuries in SKIMS Soura later, was laid to rest in Martyrs Graveyard in Eidgah on Saturday morning.
Newspaper reports said that Abdul Qayoom, a father of three children who was working with Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) department on ‘contract basis’, was allegedly beaten to pulp by paramilitary CRPF personnel at Hyderpora on Friday morning, however, police claimed it was a case of road accident.
Intense pro-freedom protests erupted in Old Srinagar area on Friday-Saturday night as the news of Qayoom’s death reached his home.
Qayoom had gone to Gooripora Hyderpora to attend a function at his in-laws’ place on Friday morning but didn’t return home for a long time.
He was rushed to B&J Hospital wherefrom doctors referred him to SKIMS Soura. Sources in SKIMS said that Qayoom had suffered brain contusion.
“He went to market to buy some essentials where he was beaten mercilessly by CRPF men at 8.30 am (in Hyderpora). He has three young kids and it’s difficult for them to bear the shock of their father’s killing,” Qayoom’s brother-in-law, Irshad Ahmad, told Greater Kashmir. Irshad was at SKIMS Soura when doctors declared him dead at around 10 pm on Friday.
“We received his pouch and mobile phone. It also contained a wrist-watch which is not his and could be of some CRPF man,” Irshad reportedly said.
Police on the other hand claimed Qayoom died in a road accident. “There is a wrong news regarding death of Ab Qayoom of Aali Kadal. The said person was injured in road accident near Humhama shifted to Bone and Joints hospital then to SKIMS Soura where he succumbed,” police claimed.
Meanwhile, some unidentified youths in and around Eidgah smashed window panes of private vehicles.
“Some elderly people who were on way to Soura showed SKIMS hospital admission ticket even then they were not spared,” an eye witness said. “It was like some rouge people had come who tried to defame the movement.”
