A court in district Anantnag has rejected the bail of two accused in the death of a fruit seller from the Deva colony of the main town in south Kashmir’s Anantnag town.
Earlier, The Kashmiriyat reported that a poor street vendor from Anantnag town had allegedly died after a medical shopkeeper administered a high dosage injection without any prescription.
Speaking to The Kashmiriyat, the family members of 32-year-old Irfan Ahmed Bhat son of Ghulam Nabi Bhat, a resident of Kha Bazar at Janglat Mandi in Anantnag has said that Irfan approached a local medical shop after he complained of health issues on 27 January 2023.
“He was complaining of throat irritation, after which he approached one Medical shop (Rehmani Medical Store) located at Jangaltmandi, where the medical shopkeeper injected him high dose injection without a test dose, due to the high dose injection he fell unconscious,” his family members said.
They said that the accused brought him to a hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
Survived by a minor daughter, wife and a mentally unsound sister, Irfan was vending fruits in the main town of Anantnag and was the sole bread earner to his family.
The court hearing the matter on 20 February, 2023 rejected the bail of the accused Ubaidullah Rehmani and Rayees Ahmed Dugga.
“The nature of accusations and seventy or punishment as well as the reasonable apprehension of tampering with the witnesses or threat to the complainant has to be considered while considering an application for bail,” the CJM’s order read.
The order further said that the nature of accusations is very grave. A person has lost his life.The punishment prescribed is also life imprisonment or imprisonment up to ten years. The investigation is incomplete. As such it shall be too early at this stage to enlarge the accused to bail least the investigation shall also suffer.
The Seven paged order، of which a copy is available with The Kashmiriyat، the court said that court can refuse bail in the circumstances of the case especially keeping in view heinousness of the offences and its impact on the society and state.