Budgam families protest against detention of their 3 boys, contests claims of Delhi Police, seeks intervention of LG over demand for their release

Srinagar: Amid rain and chill, three Budgam families staged a protest at press enclave Srinagar against the detention of their boys in Delhi by Delhi Police and contested the claims of Delhi Police saying that all the three youth detained by Delhi Police are innocent.
As already reported five men, three from Kashmir and 2 from Punjab were arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police from Shakarpur area of Delhi. Delhi Police said these arrests were made after a gunfight in the area.
Alleging that the detention of all the three youth in connection with an encounter in Delhi is a drama stage managed by Delhi Police the protesting families said that their boys have been falsely implicated in a fabricated case.
Three Kashmiri men arrested by Delhi police hail from Central Kashmir’s Budgam district. They have been identified as Reyaz Ahmed Rather and Shabir Ahmed Gojri, both residents of Nasrullah Pora and Muhammad Ayoub Pathan of Gondhipora village.
The family members mostly women told reporters that these men are innocent and have nothing to do with militancy. “It is a white lie on part of Delhi police that these men have links with militant outfits. Back in Kashmir, all these men have clean police record and never they have been detained in past,” they said.
“Can’t people of Kashmir visit Delhi? Is it a crime to visit Delhi for any work? My father runs a band saw and has nothing to do with militancy. He was in Delhi to purchase some material,” said the son of one of the detained youth .
Shaista- wife of Shabir Ahmed Gojri said her husband visits the shrine of Ajmeer Sharif every year and this time another youth from the same village Reyaz Ahmed accompanied him. “My husband had to pay obeisance at Ajmeer Sharif while Reyaz being a Welding expert had to get some stuff from Delhi,” she said.
The family members of all these men while seeking the intervention of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Director General Police Dilbagh Singh appealed Delhi Police to release them.
“We have seen in past how Kashmiri people were implicated in false case and after spending years together in Jails were acquitted by the court of law,” they said.