The court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), Srinagar has asked the Police to investigate and present report in the case related to the attack on the photojournalist, Ubaid Mukhtar at Kashmir University, during the evening of October 31.
“The complainant through a Law student Saheem Riyaz Bhat had approached Advocate Shahzad Saleem for presenting the complaint of the Srinagar-based Photojournalist before the CJM Court Srinagar,” a court handout reads.
The complaint was also presented to the court of City Munsiff Srinagar.
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In the said complaint, “it was alleged that the investigation conducted by the investigating officer of Police Station Nigeen is most slip shoddy investigation.”
Advocate Shahzad Saleem argued before the court of law that the police in order to save the accused person from the clutches of law lodged FIR under number 139/2021 U/S 341,323 IPC and did not add the section 326 IPC in the said FIR.
The counsel argued that the section 326 IPC is a serious offence in itself as it bears a grave punishment. “The same was committed against the Ubaid. Just to avail the accused person an easy go from the police custody, the sections that the police have mentioned in FIR are bailable by police,” Advocate Shahzad argued.
The attack has left grievous injury on the eye of the photojournalist and left him partially blind.
Advocate Shahzad Saleem argued that the case of the police is not on strong, substantial and cogent evidences, even not worth to sustain on the touch stone of true facts and law as the police agency did not even bothered to recover the deadly weapons.
The Court then directed the SHO Police Station Nigeen through Public Prosecutor to investigate the matter and submit the compliance report by or before 16/11/2021.
As reported by The Kashmiriyat earlier, Ubaid Mukhtar, a photojournalist from Srinagar said that he was stopped by security guard in the Dargah campus of the Kashmir university in Srinagar on October 31 and attacked with a “sharp iron weapon”.