J&K: Ghulam Nabi Azad Demands For Judicial Enquiry In Hyderpora Encounter

Azad questioned the magisterial probe ordered in the case saying how can a police team probe allegations against police themselves.

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New Delhi: Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Ghulam Nabi Azad demanded a judicial probe into the Hyderpora encounter, reported PTI. "I demand a judicial inquiry into the Hyderpora encounter to find out how and why people were killed. It is a case of police and not of the Army. There should be an inquiry under a high court judge," said Azad on Thursday while talking to the reporters. 

On Thursday, the administration had set up a magisterial probe into the encounter. The former CM raised a question on this and said “how can a police team probe allegations against the police themselves.” He further said that if such incidents take place in the capital, people will question what must be happening in the hinterland. 

According to reports, two civilians, Altaf Ahmed Bhat and Mudassir Gul were killed in an encounter in the Hyderpora region of Srinagar. The police had claimed the two civilians to be terror associates, the families of both the deceased people say that they were innocent. They have described it as cold-blooded murder. 

According to a report by the Hindustan Times, the bodies of both the deceased, Bhat and Gul, were buried by the police 70 kilometers away from Hyderpora, in Handwara, in the absence of their family members. They had protested against this in front of the Press Enclave in Srinagar on Wednesday where they staged a day-long sit-in protest and held a candlelight vigil. 

Amid protests by the family, the Jammu and Kashmir administration exhumed the bodies of both the civilians late on Thursday.