Panthers Party demands probe report of NC worker’s death

By IANS,

Jammu : The Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) Saturday demanded tabling of the Justice Bedi Commission report that probed the alleged custodial killing of a National Conference (NC) worker who had been summoned to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s camp office in 2011 on graft charges.


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JKNPP president and legislator Balwant Singh Mankotia raised the issue during zero hour in the assembly and said: “The report of the one-man Justice Bedi Commission should be shared with people and tabled in the assembly.”

He said that the commission had submitted its report in December 2013 but “it has not been made public so far”.

The Justice H.S. Bedi Commission was constituted in November 2011 to the probe the alleged killing of NC worker Syed Mohammad Yousuf.

The report exonerated the chief minister of being linked to Yousuf’s death and said that he died of a heart attack.

Yousuf was accused of taking a bribe of Rs.1.18 crore from two NC workers.

Abdullah had called the three to his camp office and handed over Yousuf to the Crime Branch of the state police Sept 29. Yousuf died in police custody next day.

Yousuf’s family had alleged that he was tortured at the chief minister’s office and died a day later.

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