Parimpora encounter: Omar, Mehbooba demand our bodies be handed over to households

SRINAGAR: National Conference chief Omar Abdullah and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday demanded that our bodies of the three alleged militants killed within the Parimpora encounter final week be handed over to their households. The leaders cited claims of their households that the three had been harmless, although police had mentioned they had been radicalised and two of them had hyperlinks with the Lashkar-e Taiba.

Abdullah mentioned that the encounter must be probed in a good and clear method.

“It is very important that the probe into this encounter be concluded at the earliest. Only a fair & transparent probe, already promised by @manojsinha_ , will satisfy the families who have lost their loved ones who they insist were innocent,” he tweeted.

The former chief minister mentioned the union territory administration ought to, within the interim, hand over the our bodies to their households.

“The LG has promised a fair & speedy probe into this encounter when @JKNC_ Lok sabha member @masoodi_hasnain spoke to him about it recently. In the interim we hope the LG will order the handing over of the bodies to the families,” he added.

Speaking in the identical vein, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti mentioned the Centre and the Union Territory administration ought to evaluate the coverage of not handing over the our bodies of these killed in encounters with safety forces.

The former chief minister claimed that in her tenure on the helm, she was additionally instructed to not return the our bodies of the slain militants.

“I refused it as it is against humanity and our religious beliefs,” she mentioned.

She claimed that it was not even clear if these killed had been militants and urged Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to intervene.

“How long are you going to enforce the peace at gunpoint? How are you going to win the hearts of the people here, ” she added.

Earlier, a social activist and lawyer from Rafiabad space of Baramulla district, Advocate Inayat, joined the PDP. He was welcomed into the celebration by Mehbooba Mufti.