{"id":33605,"date":"2020-09-24T23:02:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T17:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=33605"},"modified":"2020-09-24T23:02:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T17:32:24","slug":"alleged-sopore-custodial-death-2-cops-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=33605","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Sopore Custodial Death: 2 Cops Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Srinagar<\/strong>: Police on Thursday suspended two police personnel in connection with the \u201calleged custodial killing of a youth\u201d in sopore last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Official sources told GNS that the policemen who have been suspended were \u201cescorting him at the time of incident.\u201d The sources however declined to comment further, saying investigation is still underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Mohd Ahsaan (KAS), Additional District Magistrate Baramulla, has been appointed by the Deputy Commissioner Baramulla to conduct a magisterial enquiry to \u201cascertain the causes and circumstances leading to the death of the youth Irfan Ahmad Dar son of Mohammad Akbar Dar of Sidiq Colony, Sopore\u201d earlier this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The enquiry officer has been asked to submit his report within a period of 20 days.<br \/>\u201cThere was a huge outcry in Sopore and even it is reported in the media that the deceased was picked up by Sopore police on (September 15) and was therefore in their custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Allegations are leveled against Sopore Police for custodial killing of the subject,\u201d said the deputy commission of the north Kashmir district in the order as he appointed ADC as the inquiry officer. While police claimed Dar fled from the custody and \u201chis body was recovered later&#8221;, the family has already rejected the claim, maintaining that the 23-year-old youth, a shopkeeper by profession, was killed in custody. (GNS)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Police on Thursday suspended two police personnel in connection with the \u201calleged custodial killing of a youth\u201d in sopore last week. Official sources told GNS that the policemen who have been suspended were \u201cescorting him at the time of incident.\u201d The sources however declined to comment further, saying investigation is still underway. Mohd Ahsaan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33605","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=33605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}