After Row, J&Okay Police officers Publish Video Of Separatist Syed Geelani’s Closing Rites
Syed Ali Shah Geelani used to be buried amid a lot drama on Thursday, hours after his demise.
Srinagar:
A sequence of movies appearing the remaining rites of separatist chief Syed Ali Shah Geelani has been uploaded on social media via the Jammu and Kashmir police. The 92-year-old used to be given a somewhat burial on Thursday.
The movies had been launched following rumours that he used to be buried with out the required ablution and shrouding after his frame used to be forcibly taken away via the police from his circle of relatives. Mr Geelani used to be buried prior to morning time and his circle of relatives could not carry out the remaining rites.
Visuals from the graveyard throughout burial of SAS Geelani. pic.twitter.com/ndvcHx5xtG
— Kashmir Zone Police (@KashmirPolice) September 6, 2021
One of the crucial movies display a gaggle of other people cleaning the frame and shrouding it. That is adopted via funeral prayers and decreasing of the frame into the grave at a Hyderpora graveyard, a couple of hundred metres from the past due chief’s place of abode.
The police, alternatively, defended the transfer pronouncing the circle of relatives had in the beginning agreed to an evening burial, however later modified its thoughts, forcing the police’s hand.
After demise of SAS Geelani, IGP Kashmir Shri Vijay Kumar together with SP & ASP met either one of his sons at their place of abode at 11pm, condoled them & asked for burial within the night time for better hobby of common public because of doable primary L&O scenarios. Each agreed and requested (1/4)
— Kashmir Zone Police (@KashmirPolice) September 6, 2021
“Then again, 3 hours later, almost certainly underneath the force from Pakistan and miscreants, they behaved another way and began resorting to anti-national actions, together with wrapping the frame in a Pakistani flag, making loud sloganeering in favour of Pakistan, and instigating neighbours to come back out,” the Kashmir Zone Police tweeted these days.
On Sunday, the police filed a case underneath the anti-terror Illegal Actions Prevention Act in opposition to a few of Mr Geelani’s family members for wrapping his frame in a Pakistan flag.
“After persuasion, the family members introduced the frame to the graveyard and carried out remaining rites with due recognize participants of Intizamia Committee and native Imam. The refusal of each his sons to come back to graveyard indicated their loyalty to the Pakistani time table reasonably than their love and recognize for his or her departed father,” the police tweeted.
The circle of relatives, on its phase, alleged that the police had damaged down doorways, mistreated its participants, and forcibly taken away Mr Geelani frame. A sequence of movies appearing the police motion has long gone viral on social media and messaging platforms.
Whilst some puzzled the explanation of the police liberating movies in their model of the incidents 4 days later, others criticised them for filming the rites within the first position.
Previous, former Jammu and Kashmir Leader Minister Mehbooba Mufti and Hurriyat chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq criticised the federal government for “maltreating” Mr Geelani’s frame.
“From the movies I noticed, and statements made via Geelani’s circle of relatives, it is unlucky the frame used to be maltreated and desecrated,” stated Ms Mufti.
“It is unhappy {that a} lifeless guy used to be no longer handled with dignity. We can not do revenge politics on a lifeless guy’s frame,” the PDP leader stated. Even the remaining want of a convict about to be hanged is revered, she stated.
The Mirwaiz expressed disappointment over the remedy allegedly meted out to Mr Geelani’s circle of relatives.
“It is painful and appalling. It’s so tragically inhuman when a circle of relatives is denied the elemental proper of burial in their beloved one and one can best believe what the circle of relatives will have to have long gone via,” stated the Chairman of the Hurriyat Convention.
For the previous 4 days, an uneasy calm has prevailed. Restrictions have even been lifted from maximum portions of Kashmir. The police stated, alternatively, that cell web will stay suspended in Srinagar until the next day to come.
