Innocent men hauled for interrogation return home only in coffins now: Mehbooba

Srinagar, Mar 19: Expressing shock over the death of principal of a private school Rizwan Asad Pandit in alleged police custody, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti alleged that innocent men picked up from their homes for interrogation return home only in coffins now.

Lashing out at the Centre, Ms Mehbooba alleged that the Government of India’s (GoI’s) repressive approach is leaving young educated men vulnerable and forcing them to take up arms.

“Innocent men hauled up from their homes for interrogation return home only in coffins now. GoI’s repressive approach leaves young educated men vulnerable who are forced to take up arms. Stop using Kashmir to exhibit your sick chauvinistic nationalism. We have suffered enough,” Ms Mehbooba, who is the president of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), wrote on micro-blogging site twitter.

Ms Mehbooba was responding to reports that Pandit, who was previously associated with Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST) as guest lecturer, allegedly died in the custody of Special Operation Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmir police in the wee hours of Tuesday.