Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 2: A local court today issued fresh non-bailable arrest warrants against the two policemen who have been accused of killing a minor during protests in the 2010 summer unrest in Kashmir valley.
Chief Judicial Magistrate, Srinagar, Virender Singh Bhou, directed the Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Abdul Gani Mir, to execute the order, failing which the IGP has to appear personally before the court on next date of hearing.
The Court pulled up the police for disobeying the earlier orders and submitting compliance report which is repetition of the earlier reports.
“The report reflects nothing but delay tactics adopted by police to execute the warrants against the accused. Police intends to produce escape route to the accused persons from court appearance,” the court said.
The SSP Srinagar today submitted the report about not executing the earlier warrants.
Expressing its displeasure over the report filed by SSP, the court issued the non-bailable warrants against the two accused cops.”Coercive means are imperatively required to produce their attendance,” the court said.
Wamiq Farooq, a class VII student, was killed on January 31, 2010 when a teargas shell fired from a close range by the accused policeman hit him on the head near Gani Memorial Stadium at Rajouri Kadal in the old part of Srinagar.
Soon after Wamiq’s killing, his father, Farooq Ahmad Wani had filed a complaint before the CJM seeking registration of an FIR under Section 302 RPC against the accused Sub-Inspector Abdul Khaliq and SPO Mohammad Akram.
Citing that “sufficient material of commission of offences” about the accused cops was available, the Additional District Sessions Judge had dismissed the revision petition filed by police and directed it get the accused cops before the trial court.
The court has repeatedly expressed displeasure against police for disobeying the orders.
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