Sunday, February 16, 2014

‘I have security cover and am untraceable’




Srinagar, Feb 10: Three days on Jammu and Kashmir Police have failed to arrest the former Health Minister and senior Congress leader Shabir Ahmed Khan, facing molestation charges.

A local court here on Saturday had issued arrest warrants against Khan but till date he continues to evade arrest.

The former Health Minister, who enjoys a security of five PSOs seems to have vanished in thin air. “Police raided his official residence in Jammu and questioned his PSOs but they were unaware about his whereabouts,” said a top police official.

A special police team which was sent to arrest Khan from Srinagar too seems “clueless” about the Congress big man.

Police failing to arrest Khan has evoked sharp criticism from different sections of the society. “How can police be clueless about Shabir Khan’s whereabouts when he is round the clock with police security?” asked President Doctors Association of Kashmir Dr Nisar-ul-Hassan.

He questioned the delay in arresting the accused. “In Sara Grooves (a British resident who was killed in Srinagar by a Dutch tourist in April last year , the Kashmir police arrested the accused Richard Dewit( a Dutch tourist) within 24 hours; but in Shabir Khan’s case, police is delaying his arrest despite huge public outcry,” he added.


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