{"id":7032,"date":"2016-11-03T17:18:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T11:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=7032"},"modified":"2016-11-03T17:18:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T11:48:42","slug":"er-rashid-accuses-authotities-planning-repetition-bhopal-fake-encounter-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=7032","title":{"rendered":"Er Rashid Accuses Authotities of Planning Repetition of Bhopal \u2018Fake\u2019 Encounter in Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong>The Independent lawmaker and MLA Langate Er Rashid on Thursday was denied permission to meet the agitating detunes in Baramulla sub-jail by the jail authorities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In a statement issued this evening, he said, \u201cthere can be nothing inhuman than beating prisoners inside jail, keeping them locked like animals and denying them food and other basic immunities.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGovernment must understand that they are political prisoners and not criminals and under all circumstances and laws their rights need to be protected. It is shameful that the said jail superintendent has been herself involved in insulting, abusing and torturing prisoners, leaving dozens injured,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The erstwhile civil engineer Rashid justified the hunger strike by detunes and said that any delay in resolving the issue may deteriorate situation further.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He accused the jail superintendent Ms Rajini Sighal of \u201cdoing all this just to give a cover to her corruption cases and other misdeeds she is known for\u201d. \u201cThe said officer is known for her communal approach and hurting the sentiments of detunes inside jails.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Rashid said, \u201cit seems that getting cue from Bhopal \u2018fake\u2019 encounter, in which seven detunes were killed, there is every possibility that somewhere in J&amp;K authorities may repeat Bhopal massacre.\u201d Eight SIMI unarmed members were killed in Bhopal by police and there are calls for investigation in to the\u00a0incident.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>However, he warned the jail superintendent of dire consequences if she did not mend her behaviour.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:\u00a0The Independent lawmaker and MLA Langate Er Rashid on Thursday was denied permission to meet the agitating detunes in Baramulla sub-jail by the jail authorities. In a statement issued this evening, he said, \u201cthere can be nothing inhuman than beating prisoners inside jail, keeping them locked like animals and denying them food and other basic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7032","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\/7032","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=7032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/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=7032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}