{"id":828,"date":"2014-02-07T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/mehbooba-demands-arrest-of-shabir-khan\/"},"modified":"2014-02-07T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T16:09:00","slug":"mehbooba-demands-arrest-of-shabir-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"Mehbooba demands arrest of Shabir Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/18391.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/18391.jpg\" height=\"185\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span>SRINAGAR: Peoples Democratic Party today called for immediate arrest of  Shabir Khan who held the portfolio of Health in the state government  and has been accused of molesting a lady doctor, statement <span>said.<\/p>\n<p> Addressing a press conference in Jammu this evening, party president  Mehbooba Mufti said \u201cthere is an apprehension that being an influential  person he could try to pressurize and influence the witnesses and  destroy evidence which require that he should have been taken into  custody immediately on registration of an FIR.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> She demanded  that government must come clean on the reports that the police had  refused to register an FIR lodged by the victim of this sexual assault  and that she had been forced to approach the court for order for  registration of an FIR.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cAs per the newspaper reports the  incident has happened 7 days back. Chief Minister as in charge of police  owes an explanation about these reports,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt seems  the govt is still trying to help Shabir Khan to save his skin by not  arresting him,\u201d Mehbooba said and added that the reported delay in the  registration of an FIR could be a part of the same attempt to cover up  the scandal.<\/p>\n<p> Mehbooba condemning the remarks of a senior  congress leader questioning the credibility of the victim and  identifying her said, \u201cStrong action should be taken against him for the  breach of the established norms in the country for not naming or  identifying the name of the victim of such cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Mehbooba  said that health was the noblest profession and women generally  preferred it further respect it commanded and it was unfortunate that a  minister should have indulged in such an inhuman behavior. She asserted  that the minister, who is reported to have resigned, should have been  arrested yesterday itself after the FIR was registered, as the Supreme  Court has laid down strict guidelines for such offences against women.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR: Peoples Democratic Party today called for immediate arrest of Shabir Khan who held the portfolio of Health in the state government and has been accused of molesting a lady doctor, statement said. Addressing a press conference in Jammu this evening, party president Mehbooba Mufti said \u201cthere is an apprehension that being an influential person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","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\/828","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=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/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=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}