Srinagar: The CBI report in the Shopian case
has opened a can of worms as it has said that a Jammu and
Kashmir Police constable had written an anonymous letter
alleging involvement of a member of the victims' family in the
death of the two girls with an intention to divert the probe.
The CBI, which submitted its report before the Jammu and
Kashmir High Court yesterday, alleged that handwriting
analysis of the letter, supposedly written by a classmate of
one of the victim Aasiya Jan (17), has shown it was actually
written by a constable named Mohd. Yaseen Ganie.
This finding prompted CBI to file a separate complaint
against the police official.
"The handwriting expert of Forensic Science Laboratory,
Srinagar has attributed the authorship of this letter to
Constable Mohd Yaseen Ganie No.538/SPN, who had written the
said letter to mislead/divert the investigation from its
logical conclusion," CBI alleged in its report.
The letter was received at a local police station even as
protests broke out in the hilly town after bodies of Aasiya
and her sister-in-law Neelofer Jan (22) were fished out of a
river stream.
It claimed the writer was a male classmate of Aasiya and
alleged she might have been murdered by her own family member.
The letter claimed the two were on friendly terms and
this was not liked by her brother Shakeel Ahmed Ahanghar.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 19:29