Baig asks CM, MoS Home to step down

 Early Times Report

SRINAGAR, Sep 30: At a hurriedly organized news conference at Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s official residence, senior PDP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister, Muzaffar Hussain Baig, asked both, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, as well as his close confidante and MoS Home, Nasir Aslam Wani, to step down.

Baig argued that an independent, free and fair, credible and expeditious investigation was not possible as both CM and MoS Home, according to him, were in the dock over their party activist Syed Mohammad Yousuf’s death in mysterious circumstances.

Baig revealed that Yousuf’s son, Syed Talib, called PDP office today with the allegation that his father had been done to death. According to Baig’s disclosure, Talib told the PDP leaders that his father called him at 6.30 p.m on Thursday to inform family members that he was “under severe physical torture”. Thereafter, his telephone was switched off till Police communicated to the family that he had died at hospital and the dead body required to be taken for funeral after the post mortem.

Baig said that CM and MoS Home could return to office once they would be found “not involved in the killing”. His demand came despite the fact that Chief Minister ordered a judicial inquiry and asked Chief Secretary Madhav Lal to request Chief Justice FM Kalifullah to spare a sitting High Court judge for conducting the judicial investigation.

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