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J&K police trace 26 out of 84 disappeared persons
Srinagar, Sept 08: Jammu and Kashmir police today said they have traced 26 out of the total 84 people who were reported to have disappeared in the state during the Congress-PDP coalition government`s rule since October last.
Besides, whereabouts of 14 others have been established, he said. Six have joined militants' ranks, two others have been taken away by ultras while five others who had joined the ranks have been killed in encounters. One is in central jail.
The investigation about other names figuring in the list is in progress and every effort is being made to establish their whereabouts, the spokesman said.
One Gulzar Ahmed figuring at serial no 33 in the list is
lodged in Srinagar central jail. In another case, the police
did not come across any person by the name of Mohammad Altaf
Yatoo in Aripathan village in Beerwah. His name was figuring
at serial no 14 in the list, he said.
Five disappeared persons found to be killed were Mohammad
Ishaq lone who was killed on the line of control at Rangwarta
Gali while trying to exfiltrate, Bilal Ahmed who was killed
along with Mohammad Sadiq Mir during an encounter in Beerwah
area, Bashir Ahmed Shiekh killed at warpach in Ganderbal in an
ambush and Ghulam Mohammad Wani, whose body was recovered from
the paddy fields at Sagam on July 23, 2003. One Qasim who had
gone to Punjab was arrested at Nowshera and reportedly died
there.
Bureau Report