{"id":1776,"date":"2014-04-25T17:50:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2014-04-25T17:50:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T17:50:14","slug":"imam-dubbed-militant-family-contests-armys-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=1776","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Imam dubbed as militant\u2019: family contests army\u2019s claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Srinagar:<\/strong> A Kashmir man, who the government forces claimed to have nabbed during an anti-militancy raid, was summoned by police and arrested, his family said\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n

In a statement issued\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0army claimed that based on an intelligence input they apprehended Bilal Ahmad Bhat, a Hizbul Mujahideen militant, from North Kashmir\u2019s Baramulla. \u201cDuring the raid the joint team of party apprehended a militant of HM outfit,\u201d the statement read, adding that one AK- 47 rifle, one magazine and 20 rounds ammunition was recovered from his possession.<\/p>\n

However, Bilal\u2019s father, Sanaullah Bhat rebutted army and police\u2019s claim and said his son was was summoned by police on March 30, 2014, and he went to police station Kunzar the next day.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn 30 March, we got a call from Kunzar police station and they asked for Bilal. I gave phone to Bilal and he spoke to him. They told him to come to police station Kunzar as they have to talk to him,\u201d Bhat told GNS.<\/p>\n

He said next day at\u00a09:00 am, Bilal went to Police Station Kunzar and they told him there that \u2018you are being summoned by Special Operation Group (SOG) and Pattan and you will go to Pattan\u2019. \u201cHe came back to home and after having lunch and some work, he went to Pattan SOG camp. When he went to Pattan SOG, he was told by cops to wait as \u2018Sahab\u2019 is not here. It will take time so wait,\u201d Bhat said.<\/p>\n

Bhat said: \u201cHe called us and said \u2018Sahab\u2019 is not here and it may take time so I am staying for night. We told him you should have come back, but he said it is alright as they he has to talk to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next, day, Bhat says, he was still at SOG Pattan. \u201cWe took lunch for him. Four days passed like this and after four days the \u2018Sahab\u2019 finally met him and spoke to him.\u201d Bhat said after SOG officer met him, we asked him that \u2018what is the issue\u2019 and he and Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Pattan said: \u201cIt will take a day and he will be released. He has no problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bilal, 24, is an Imam in local Masjid of Kunzar and he also teaches kids in a local Darasgah.<\/p>\n

Bilal\u2019s father says that due to absence of Imam, few locals of Kinzar went to Police station Kunzar, which had earlier summoned Bilal and asked police why is he under detention. Bhat said: \u201cThe police replied that Bilal was clean. We sent him to Pattan SOG and we don\u2019t think he is involved in any mischief.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bhat, in order to get his son released, met Minister of Agriculture, Ghulam Hassan Mir and he had told him that Bilal was clean and will be freed soon.<\/p>\n

But, Bhat alleges, Bilal was shifted to SOG Kreeri and was tortured. \u201cHe was badly tortured and thrashed at Kreeri.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI went again to seek help from Mir and he promised that your son will be released on\u00a022 March,\u201d Bhat said. But, he said, \u201cWe were shocked when we came to know that he was branded as militant and police as well as army said they arrested him\u00a0on Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n

While questioning police claims, he asked: \u201cWhere was he then before his arrest? Aren\u2019t police a government department?\u201d<\/p>\n

He demanded immediate release of his son and said: \u201cThis is injustice and height of oppression.\u201d<\/p>\n

Denying family allegations, an army spokesman based in Srinagar told GNS that police had detained the Bilal in last month and released. \u201cBut, he was ordered to report before police every week. However, on a specific input of SOG, we arrested him along with an AK-47 rifle.\u201d The army maintained that Bilal is a militant. (GNS)<\/p>\n

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Srinagar: A Kashmir man, who the government forces claimed to have nabbed during an anti-militancy raid, was summoned by police and arrested, his family said\u00a0on Friday. In a statement issued\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0army claimed that based on an intelligence input they apprehended Bilal Ahmad Bhat, a Hizbul Mujahideen militant, from North Kashmir\u2019s Baramulla. \u201cDuring the raid the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}