Srinagar/Feb, 10: Police has initiated inquiry after a few days 15 second long video showing police men manhandling a women in a village in south Kashmir district went viral on social media .The video is connected to an investigation pursued into a case of alleged kidnapping of a minor girl. The police has taken cognizence of the video and initiated an enquiry
A statement of clarification issued by Jammu and Kashmir Police said ” Mohd Suleman (Name Changed) S/o Mian Rahim (Name Changed) attended PS Shopian with a complaint that his daughter(name with held) aged 15 yrs , who had come to Shopian relatives,has been kidnapped by accused persons namely Rameez khan ( who is already married ) , Mohsin Khan , Saleem Khan R’s/o Shadab Karewa”.
Acting on the complaint the police statement said “FIR no 20/2019 u/s 363 RPC was registered and investigations taken up. During the course of investigation, a police party of PS Shopian went to residence of accused persons for recovering the kidnapped girl and effecting the arrest of the accused person but on reaching there, the police couldn’t recover the kidnapped girl, and found two accused persons namely Mohsin Khan s/o Saleem Khan and Saleem Khan s/o Sardar Khan in the house”. Saying that While trying to effect the arrest of these accused, police said ‘the other family members including women attacked police party with intention to prevent/deter the police from effecting lawful arrest of these persons. This led to escape of one of the accused persons’ .
Police in its statement said that it was a case of kidnapping of minor girl (name with held) registered in police station Shopian. In pursuance of investigation to recover the minor girl the raid was conducted, adding that ‘the family members of the accused especially ladies around the house came forward and tried to block the policemen on duty. Meanwhile the accused wanted in the case managed to escape’ .
Saying that the video surfaced on the incident is being probed and an inquiry is ordered to examine the conduct of the men on duty police in its statement clarified that the incident happened in pursuance of investigation of a serious crime of kidnapping of a minor girl.
