Srinagar: CBI has questioned four lawyers,
including public prosecutor Mushtaq Ahamed Gattoo, in
connection with unrest in Shopian town of South Kashmir where
the bodies of two women were found in May this year.
The lawyers were summoned by the CBI for recording their
statements during which all the four, including Gattoo, were
questioned for allegedly infulencing some of the witnesses to
make statements before the Jan Commission and the court in
Shopian, a township famous for its apples.
Ahead of their questioning, two witnesses, who had
recorded in their confessional statements before a magistrate
earlier claiming that they had heard cries of women coming
from a police vehicle, backtracked from their statement and
claimed before CBI that they were forced to make such a
statement before the court and Jan Commission, the sources
said.
They said this same statement of the two, identified as
Abdul Rashid and Ghulam Mohiduddin Lone, was recorded afresh
before the Chief Judicial Magistrate.
The Shopian township had witnessed a 47-day protest
after bodies of Neelofar and Aasiya were recovered from a
stream in Shopian in the last week of May. It was alleged the
two have been raped and murdered.
Bureau Report
First Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 21:30