Admitted in SKIMS, Noorbagh youth recounts dreadful ordeal ‘I Have Lost Everything, No Separatist Or Mainstream Leader Bothered To Visit Me’ Srinagar, : Jan Muhammad Khanday used to carry the burden of his family as he was the lone breadwinner but now after being pushed down from one- storey terrace allegedly by police officials, he won’t be able to walk for rest of his life. Khanday, a resident of Pamposh Colony, Noorbagh, used to load sand on tippers to earn his livelihood. On the fateful day of last Friday he had ventured out of his house to purchase some goods from the market. “As soon as I entered the adjacent lane nearby to my house, Chowki Officer along with police personnel of Safa Kadal Police station started chasing me. I got afraid and ran for safety. I entered a house nearby and they followed me there and caught hold of me. They thrashed me mercilessly and after that they threw me from one storeyed building to ground and even after that they beat me ruthlessly,” Khanday said while writhing in pain at Ward No 7 of SKIMS hospital. He said: “I have lost everything I won’t be able to work again in my life and I am worried who would care for my family.” Khanday appeals for help from his Kashmiri brethren. “I want my people to fight for me, I was laborer working hard to provide food to my family which consists of my aged father, ailing mother, mentally retarded brother and one unmarried sister who will look after them now? I want the Chowki officer to be booked and action should be taken against him,” Khanday said. His father, Abdul Sattar recalls the fateful Friday which left his son on bed-dead. “We are yet to come to terms that my son won’t be able to work or walk again. It is a shock for us, his mother has developed heart problem after he was beaten.” “I want justice for my son and nothing else,” Sattar said adding that during the last week since his son was in hospital nobody had come to visit them. “No one whether from separatist or mainstream camp has come to see us in the hospital. I am very poor man and I am not able to pay the medicine bills of my son,” he said. Sattar said: “The medicos have told us that Jan’s lower body is completely paralyzed and there are blood clots in his head.” According to the family members, Jan has been shifted from Ward No. 2 to Ward No. 7 which is pediatrician ward for children. “We have to search for doctors as nobody comes to see him and we apprehend that the officials in SKIMS are trying to mellow down the episode as they have kept hidden all the medical records of Jan so that nobody gets to see the same,” Sattar said. “He might have slipped himself and police is not responsible for this act. There is no need to lodge an FIR when FIR already stands lodged about stone pelting incident,” Superintendent of Police City North, communication has asked Inspector General of Police to look into the matter and give suitable directions to the SHO concerned to register FIR without any delay. The family members had met Divisional Comm
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 09:53:31 +0000
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