Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 11: Shamas Udin Malik, the father of detained AAP MLA Mehraj Malik, today apologised for the language used by his son for the Deputy Commissioner and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to facilitate his release by scrapping the charges against him under Public Safety Act (PSA).
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“I apologise to all of you. Whatever he (Mehraj Malik) has done, I apologise for that. If he has any connection with any party, I apologise for that as well. I request you to release my son,” he said, while talking to media persons after he was discharged from the Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu where he was briefly hospitalised due to weakness and stress following his son’s detention.
Seeking withdrawal of the PSA charges against his son, Shamas Udin said: “The Government here under the LG sahib and also in Delhi, they can return my son. I want nothing else, I only want my son back, released. He (Mehraj) has four daughters, including a two and half month infant. All they are crying. His mother is crying.”
In response to the questions about Mehraj Malik’s alleged abusive remarks against the Deputy Commissioner Doda and his family, Shamas Udin apologised for the language used by his son. “For the words he has used, I apologise for those,” he said,
Asserting his efforts to reach out to the LG, Shamas Udin Malik said, “I also went to meet LG sahib, but they did not allow me to meet him. However, I met CM sahib. I have full trust that LG sahib and Modi sahib will definitely do justice with us and bring him back.”
Shamas Udin Malik said his son is the voice of the poor, neither a thief nor a goon, contrary to how some people describe him. “If they say he should not work, then we will not let him work, but kindly bring him back. I am going door to door seeking his release. I have been sick for four days, yet I am going everywhere and asking for my son’s release. I was even hospitalised,” he said.
Earlier, AAP leaders rushed Shamas Udin Malik for a medical check-up after he collapsed at his Gandhinagar accommodation due to weakness caused by stress following his son’s detention. After the brief medical examination, he was discharged from the hospital.
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