Geelani calls for shutdown in Shopian on May 30 : APHC Press Note To Sachnews Jammu Kashmir Srinagar, May 25: Paying rich tributes to Asiya and Neelofar on their fifth martyrdom anniversary, chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Geelani has called for complete shutdown on 30th May Friday in District Shopian and appealed people to held prayer meeting in Masjids for peace to their souls on that day. He demanded that the double rape and murder case of Asiya and Neelofar should be reopened and said that the Shopian tragedy that occurred five years back have shaken the conscience of the people of the valley and which can’t be neglected in anyway. Geelani Sahab also remembered another daughter of Kashmir Tabinda Gani with sad heart and while demanded the stern and immediate punishment to the culprits, Geelani sahab said that justice delayed is justice denied. He expressed his dismay over the way the case is being listed in court and said that the judicial proceedings are going at a snail’s pace in Tabinda Gani’s case which is a mental as well as physical torture for her family. In Sunday’s press release, Hurriyat chairman said that the women in Jammu and Kashmir are extremely misbehaved and abused at the hands of Indian army and the women of this region are subjected to the unbearable cruelties by these foreign forces. Five years back in Shopian two women Asiya and Nelofar were kidnapped, raped and then brutally murdered but the culprits are still roaming free and under government protection. Geelani Sahab said that the murderers of Asiya and Neelofar were not unknown persons but they being influential and prominent figures of security forces were shielded by the investigation agencies and in order to save the culprits, all the evidences were destroyed on the directions of New Delhi. Geelani Sahab said that Umar Abdullah also played a very dirty role in this game to save the accused and on the 2nd day of the Shopian carnage, when even primary investigation were not started, he declared that the victims had drowned into the stream. When investigation was started on public pressure, it was very late then and the culprits were successful in destroying the evidence. Geelani Sahab said that the people of Kashmir are not satisfied with the investigations of that case and we are still waiting for fair trail and demanding that the persons involved in that heinous crime should be dealt with firm hands and they should be brought to books for their wrong doings. Geelani Sahab said that it is the reason for remembering this day every year and this day is celebrated as a mark of protest against all these tragedies which were meted out to the female section of this region from last 65 years. Hurriyat chairman demanded re-open and re-investigation into the double murder and rape case of Asiya and Neelofar and said that the past investigations neither consulted justice nor took the collective conscious of the people into consideration. Meanwhile today Geelani sahab expressed his concern and anguish over the slow pace of judicial proceedings with respect to the Tabinda Gani case and demanded that the persons involved in murder of this innocent girl should be brought the books quickly so that her family will get relief. Geelani sahab appealed the human rights organizations to take serious notice of the miseries of women in Jammu and Kashmir and play their role in punishing the war crime criminals who are rooming freely under government security cover despite committing heinous crimes of rape and murders.
Posted on: Sun, 25 May 2014 12:25:49 +0000
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