{"id":40053,"date":"2021-09-06T19:34:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T14:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/even-dead-not-spared-in-kashmir-says-mehbooba-mufti-on-filing-of-fir-over-draping-of-sags-body-in-pak-flag\/"},"modified":"2021-09-06T19:34:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T14:04:06","slug":"even-dead-not-spared-in-kashmir-says-mehbooba-mufti-on-filing-of-fir-over-draping-of-sags-body-in-pak-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=40053","title":{"rendered":"Even dead not spared in Kashmir, says Mehbooba Mufti on filing of FIR over draping of SAG\u2019s body in Pak flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Srinagar Sep 06:<\/em><\/strong><em> Criticising the authorities for the filing of a first information report over the draping of Syed Ali Shah Geelani&#8217;s body in a Pakistani flag, former chief minister and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti Monday claimed that authorities did not even spare the dead.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Talking to reporters here according to news agency Kashmir Indepth News Service (KINS), Mehbooba said what happened to Syed Ali Geelani on his death has hurt the people.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cYou should have given respect to the dead body. You can fight with a person when he is alive, not with a dead person. We could have differences with Geelani sahib but his last rites should have been allowed as per his wishes. He had wished to be buried at a particular place. If you don\u2019t agree with a person that does not mean you will take revenge after his death at the barrel of the gun,\u201d Mehbooba said.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Syed Ali Geelani, 91, died on Wednesday night at his residence in Srinagar after a prolonged illness. The body was laid to rest at a graveyard in a nearby mosque. His family said he had wished to be buried at the martyr&#8217;s graveyard in downtown Srinagar.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The PDP president said she had had differences with Geelani but he deserved a different treatment after his death. Criticising the filing of the FIR, Mehbooba Mufti also said, \u201cIn Kashmir even the dead are not spared. A family isn&#8217;t allowed to mourn and bid a final farewell as per their wishes. Booking Geelani sahab&#8217;s family under UAPA shows GOI&#8217;s deep rooted paranoia and ruthlessness,\u201d she said. \u201cDraping the dead in a particular flag is not big issue. Even a chief minister had wished to be draped in the flag of a particular party.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Budgam Police registered the FIR against unnamed people under various provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Indian Penal Code, taking cognisance of a video clip which showed Geelani&#8217;s body draped in a Pakistani flag.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Mehbooba Mufti had offered her condolences on his demise, saying that she admired him for \u201chis steadfastness &amp; standing by his beliefs.\u201d She wrote that while they had not agreed on many things, she was saddened to hear the news of his death. (KINS)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar Sep 06: Criticising the authorities for the filing of a first information report over the draping of Syed Ali Shah Geelani&#8217;s body in a Pakistani flag, former chief minister and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti Monday claimed that authorities did not even spare the dead. Talking to reporters here according to news agency Kashmir Indepth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40053","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\/40053","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=40053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}