Srinagar Family members of a middle-aged man from Bemina
area of Srinagar who is missing since July 24 Friday staged a protest
here to seek whereabouts of their missing kin.
Shouting slogans “trace Ghulam Rasool and do justice with poor family”
scores of family members and neighbors of the missing person appeared
at Press Enclave here this afternoon and staged protest appealing
police to speed up its efforts in tracing the missing person.
Protesters claimed that Ghulam Rasool Wani (40) of Bemina area of
Srinagar city had gone for jogging around Sharifabad HMT on July 24
but did not return home till date.
They said a formal missing complaint was also lodged at Parimpora
police station but the missing person is yet to be traced by the
police.
“We are apprehensive about the safety of our kin; don’t know whether
he is alive or god forbid dead. We have gathered here to appeal to the
police to expedite investigation and trace him at earliest,’’ said one
of the relatives of Wani while talking to reporters.
They said the police should seek help from other investigating
agencies to trace the missing person from Bemina whose family members
they said are in virtual shock.
“Kindly help us trace our missing brother. We are worried, so are
other relatives, what the police is doing, six days have already
passed but there is no information about our brother. Let police seek
help from other agencies if they are not able to trace him,” said the
protesters.
Earlier a PHD Scholar from Ibrahim Colony Bemina went missing after he
went for trekking to Gangabal Lake along with his five other friends
June 14 this year. Family members of missing youth said five other
friends of Hilal who had accompanied him to Gangbal on the fateful day
returned but their son has not returned yet
