Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Feb 25: A local court today upheld the non-bailable arrest warrants issued against two policemen in the death of a teenager during protests in the 2010.
The Additional District Sessions Judge, Parveez Husain Kachroo, Srinagar today dismissed the revision petition filed by police and directed it to get the accused cops before the trial court on March 3, the next hearing of the case.
“The Chief Judicial Magistrate has sufficient material about the involvement of the petitioners with commission of the offences. The report filed by the Enquiry Magistrate established the fact that the petitioners have used fire arms without any provocation and without there being any need or occasion for them to use the firearms because it has been stated by all the witnesses examined by the Magistrate that on the particular date no rioting was going on and people were involved in their daily activities,” the court said in its order.
The court said that the revision fails and is dismissed. “There is no illegality in CJM’s order. The cops are directed to remain present before the CJM court on next hearing,” the court directed.
Earlier, Chief Judicial Magistrate Srinagar had issued non-bailable arrest warrants against Sub-Inspector Abdul Khaliq and SPO Mohammad Akram in connection with the killing of Wamiq Farooq.
The arrest warrant was issued under Section 304 RPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) as the court held that there was sufficient evidence against the two policemen as reflected in the reports of the Judicial inquiry and the special investigation team.
The court had asked the Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, to execute the warrants.
Wamiq Farooq, a class VII student, at Rajouri Kadal in 2010, 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.
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