Mass Com student found killed in Baramulla


Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

SRINAGAR, Aug 10: Dead body of 18-year-old Syed Farak Bukhari S/o Syed Bashir Ahmed Bukhari R/o Kreeri, Baramulla, was recovered today from Ningli Nullah in Chhoora area in Sopore-Pattan belt of north Kashmir. A student of Journalism and Mass Communication at Government Degree College Baramulla, Bukhari had been missing since July 28th.

Informed sources said that a farmer spotted the partly decomposed human body and informed Police. Men from Police Post Chhoora rushed to the spot and recovered the dead body. The teenager was found dead with his hands amputated and the throat slit. Eyewitnesses said that there were clear torture marks on the body.

Large number of people, including more than a thousand residents of Kreeri, rushed to the spot and took the body into custody. While shouting slogans and leveling allegation that Bukhari had been arrested by Police and security forces and done to death in custody, they demanded credible investigation and legal action under the culprits. Reports said that the gathering occupied Srinagar-Baramulla highway and staged a sit-in. Authorities failed to remove the angry crowd till late tonight.

Police had already filed a missing report which was now reportedly being converted into a murder case under section 302 RPC. Officials were reportedly trying to pacify the gathering with assurances of transparent investigation with the plea that Police be allowed to conduct post mortem and carry on the investigation accordingly. Residents had been agitating the matter of Bukhari’s mysterious disappearance since last two weeks by way of demonstrations following which Baramulla Police had constituted a Special Investigating Team.

Sources said that one photo-identity card and two mobile phones with SIM cards were recovered from pockets of the slain student’s clothes which facilitated his identification.



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