Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Dec 20: Bar Association Baramulla (BAB) today said the police filed a case against the Judicial Magistrate in ambulance halt row under political pressure.
Addressing a press conference in Baramulla today, President BAB Advocate Ghulam Mohindin Wani said that police tried to undermine the independence and power of judiciary by filing an FIR against Mobile Magistrate Manzoor Ahmed Lone who was on duty.
Controversy erupted after Lone had allegedly halted an ambulance in Sopore carrying a cardiac patient Abdul Rehman Dar, aged 60, of Handwara in North Kashmir, who died due to delay in treatment.
“Our sympathy is with the bereaved family and it is a wrong notion that we are trying to save the guilty. But BAB feels that police filed the case under political pressure and did not even care to seek the permission from the Court before registering case against a Mobile Magistrate,” Wani said.
He said that Division Bench of High Court has termed the police action illegal and has not only called Chief Secretary, Director General and Inspector General of Police in person but also sought records from SHO Pattan in this regard.
“We condemn the police action and want to made it clear that it threw all the rules to winds by implicating Mobile Magistrate in the ambulance halt row case,” he said, adding that BAB will stage protests if FIR will not be withdrawn against Mobile Magistrate.
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