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Published from Srinagar | Jammu  Regd. No. JK NP-6/SKGPO-2012-2014  Vol: 28  No. 127  Pages: 20  Rs. 3.00
As controversies
‘end’, PDP
says ‘teething
troubles over’
After Govt says no to KP townships,
PRCs in schools, separatists say
people won; NC still doubtful
MUDDASIR ALI
Srinagar, May 6: Separatists and mainstream
politicians Wednesday
welcomed New Delhi’s
announcement that it has
no plans to set up separate
townships for migrant
Pandits in Kashmir as a
cornered PDP-BJP government got some breather
after finding itself in the
middle of ranging controversies.
The two-month-old government had come under
attack from opposition,
pro-freedom leadership
and civil society, particularly in Kashmir, on
controversies over issues
including settlement of
West Pakistan refugees,
separate townships for
migrant Pandits and a unilateral announcement by
a junior BJP minister on
issuance of state subjects
to students at school level.
On Tuesday, the Government of India however
informed Lok Sabha that
it had no proposal to set
up separate townships for
Kashmiri Pandits.
Peoples Democratic
Party president Mehbooba Mufti said the “teething
troubles” that the coalition regime was faced with
in J&K “were now over.”
“These controversies
were perhaps motivated
and a result of stereotype
and fixed mindset since
the coalition government
has been insisting from
the very beginning that its
Agenda of Alliance would
be the rule-book for governance. When Chief Minister had cleared the air over
the issue (of townships)
there should not have been
any further doubts,” she
said.
See As controversies...on Pg-12
No takers for Mufti’s
‘political space to
separatists’
Resistance camp says battle of
ideologies can’t be conditional
ARIF SHAFI WANI
Srinagar, May 6: Day aer J&K Chief Minister Mui
Muhammad Sayeed said he would provide space to separatists for dissent but some positions were unacceptable, the resistance camp rejected Sayeed’s assertions,
saying “bale of ideologies cannot be conditional.”
On Tuesday, the Chief Minister had said he has not
given up his idea of bale of ideologies to provide
political space to separatists, “but some positions are
unacceptable.”
“It (bale of ideologies) is there. It is an evolutionary
process and my agenda won’t go anywhere,” he had stated.
Reacting to Chief Minister’s statement, senior separatist leader and Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G)
Syed Ali Geelani said: “Government of India and its
regime in Jammu and Kashmir have squeezed political space of separatists and voices of dissent to deny
Kashmiris their inalienable right to self-determination.”
See No takers...on Pg-12
(Air Surcharge For Jammu/Leh 50 Paisa)
GreaterKashmir.com, GreaterKashmir.net
Tufail Matoo case:
CB probe says
killers ‘untraced’
‘FINAL’ REPORT
‘No facts to
convincingly gather
how the death took
place and who is
responsible for it’
D A RASHID
Srinagar, May 6: Fifteen months
after the Jammu and Kashmir High
Court handed over the investigation of
teenager Tufail Matoo’s killing to the
Crime Branch, the investigating agency
Wednesday filed the final probe report
before a trial court here as “untraced.”
The Crime Branch had taken over the
investigation after a Special Investigation Team of Police closed the case as
“unproved.”
Tufail—a class 12th student—was
returning home from tuitions on June
11, 2010 when policemen hit a teargas
shell on his head near Gani Memorial
Stadium in Rajouri Kadal area of Srinagar, killing him on the spot. The killing triggered massive protests across
Kashmir and widespread condemnation, leading to a probe.
“In the present circumstances,
no such facts were accosted
with (sic) where from it
could be convincingly
gathered with exactitude how the death of
Tufail Matoo took place
and who was culpably
responsible for it,” the
Crime Branch said in its
report which concludes the
investigation as “untraced”.
The report was filed before
the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Srinagar on Wednesday. The
CJM Srinagar, V S Bhau—while issuing notice to the victim family—held
that since the case has been closed as
untraced, “in the light of law laid down
by the Apex Court, I deem it proper to
put to notice the complainant at first
instance. Office as such is directed to
issue summons to complainant and put
up the case file on 3.6.2015.”
In its report, the Crime Branch
has underscored that “three varied
accounts of eyewitnesses, official witnesses of Police and expert opinion if
taken in unison throw up a situation
where there can be no conclusive cul-
Salman Khan gets 5-yr jail in
hit-and-run case
Convicted of culpable homicide; High
Court grants 48-hr interim bail
mination of investigation which would
appear commensurate with the merits
of the case.”
The report further says
“the fact is a young life got
lost with mystery shrouding the circumstances in
which the unfortunate
death took place; where
eyewitnesses blame
that some unidentifiable
policemen were responsible for his death while the
Police and official witnesses
present in the area during the
law and order duty appear oblivious
of what exactly were the circumstances
under which the incident took place.”
The report reveals that “the expert
opinion by CFSL Chandigarh showing
the absence of GSR in the swabs collected from the wound of the deceased
and the eyewitness identifying a
wrong person during the TIP made the
whole investigative process susceptible to inconsistencies as otherwise
while bringing home guilt against any
accused person or persons. The investigative findings have to meet the test of
reasonableness without ambiguity and
beyond any shadow of doubt.”
See Tufail Matto...on Pg-12
epaper.GreaterKashmir.com
PSA detentions:
Advisory Board
set to become
functional
Govt clears appointment of 2
former judges as board members
UMER MAQBOOL
Srinagar, May 6: The
Advisory Board constituted to take a final call
on detentions under the
Public Safety Act (PSA) is
set to become functional
as the J&K government
has cleared appointment
of two former judges—
Abdul Waheed and Kartar
Singh—as its members.
Top sources told Greater
Kashmir that Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad
Sayeed has approved the
appointment of Waheed
and Singh as members of
the Board.
The Board is defunct
since February 28 this year
after its members—Bashir
Ahmad Wani and Subash
Chander Gupta—completed their tenure. The Board
is presently headed by
former High Court judge,
Justice S L Bhat.
Coincidentally, the
Board’s revival comes at a
time when Hurriyat Conference (G) leader Masarat
See PSA detentions...on Pg-12
2014
JK’s Home Ministry says
16,329 cases of PSA slapped
on people since 1988.
2012
· JK government amends law
after facing flak from rights
groups over its misuse. The
changes, according to legal
experts, have however failed to
curb its “arbitrary use.”
· According to amendments,
the detention period was
reduced from existing 2 years
to 6 months in a case involving
security of the State and from
1 year to 3 months in a case of
public disorder.
2011
Amnesty International terms
PSA as a ‘lawless law’.
Kashmir family adopted
by Bollywood superstar
saddened by court verdict
Zaina Begum holds night-long prayers at nearby shrine for the actor
KHALID GUL
Mumbai, May 6: Superstar Salman Khan was Wednesday
convicted of culpable homicide and sentenced to five years
imprisonment in the 2002 hit-and-run case but escaped being
sent to jail after the Bombay High Court granted him interim
bail till May 8 when it will hear his plea against conviction.
See Salman...on Pg-12
Mir Wasim/GK
Aishmuqam (Anantnag), May 6: Far away from
the hustle and bustle of Mumbai, 75-year-old Zaina
Begum—a widow from remote village of Dayroo in
Aishmuqam area of this South Kashmir district—
spent her entire night at the shrine of Zain-u-Din
Wali (RA) to pray for Bollywood superstar Salman
Khan who left Kashmir to hear verdict in 2002 hitand-run case on Wednesday.
But the verdict that handed out five years to
Khan has dashed hopes of Begum, and her family—
adopted by the actor during shooting for his upcomSee Kashmir...on Pg-12
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