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CM Ms Mehbooba Mufti with family of slain Mashooq Ahmad in Kund village of Kulgam on September 03, 2016. (KL Image: Official Facebook page of Mehbooba Mufti)
Chief Minister Ms Mehbooba Mufti, on Saturday morning paid a surprise visit to remote Kund village in South Kashmir where she met the parents of a slain youth, Mashooq Ahmad. She spent some time with the bereaved family.
“We landed at a designated place in an army camp and then drove to the family which is living almost two kms away,” one official who accompanied the Chief Minister said.
Locals said Ms Mufti’s chopper landed at 9RR army camp in the hilly Kund area and visited the family of Mashooq Ahmad, 19-year-old youth who was killed in the clashes with forces after the death of popular militant commander Burhan Wani. That day the crowds set afire the local police post as well.
“The Chief Minister took some time in talking to the family, she actually spent a good time with his mother,” the official claimed. “Then we reached the helipad and took off.”
Soon after the Chief Minister left, a senior police officer said, a police party was on way to reopen and restart the police post that did not operate for more than one-and-a-half month.
“They were attacked by a group of nearly 200 people and one cop was badly hit by a stone in which his left ear-lobe was damaged,” the officer said.
“We sent the reinforcements that quelled the mob, restored order and restarted the police post.” The officer said they also arrested two youths, which later added to the local anger.
The police officer, however, was unaware about a protest that was going on in a neighbouring hamlet where two youth had been arrested by the police early morning.
“As her cavalcade passed, clashes erupted between protesters and forces in which half a dozen people were injured,” a resident informed.
Soon people hit Karlu village triggering almost day-long clashes.
MLA Devsar, however, termed the CM’s visit as “salt on the wounds of the innocent people”. Kund area falls in Devsar assembly segment.
“This is not the way how a CM works, I am the MLA concerned and I don’t know about it (visit),” said Mohammad Amin Bhat, MLA Devsar. He confirmed arrest of three youths.
PDP secretary general and uncle of Mehbooba Mufti, Sartaj Madani, was waiting for the CM visit.
After Chief Minister flew back to Srinagar, Sartaj Madni was drove to Devsar in the same cavalcade later. Interestingly, when it reached Churat village, a group of youth appeared from different sides and attacked the cavalcade.
Protests are going on in the area while this report was being filed.
(With inputs from Shah Hilal and Aakash Hassan in Islamabad.)
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