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| Asiya Andrabi gets away again, courtesy Mantri influence | | Cops act as mute spectators, allow hoisting of Pak flags | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 18: Jammu and Kashmir Police turning a blind eye towards the activities of woman separatist leader Asiya Andrabi and allowing her to unfurl Pakistani flags time and again has put the question mark over the credibility of JK Police.
She is "symbolically" booked only when hue and cry is raised by the media? This question is doing the rounds in the state -casting doubts over the working of the state police as cops have again refrained from arresting her.
The Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief, Asiya Andrabi has been charged for hoisting Pakistan's flag on the neighboring country's Independence Day in Kashmir. Though police have booked her, there's more than what meets the eye.
First, Asiya has been spared from being arrested for her anti-India propaganda. Second, police remained mute to unfurling of Pakistani flag and singing of its anthem by her on August 14 though a considerable number of cops were present at function held in Soura locality here.
Sources said at least six policemen were present at the function hosted by Asiya. Intelligence officials said it was duty to of the cops to have prevented the Asiya and her brigade of burqa-clad women from indulging in anti-national activities. As per the experts, they should have been spontaneously detained.
But police did not act so. Hours later, Andrabi stoked another controversy by addressing a rally organised by Hafiz Saeed-led Jamat-ud Dawa in Pakistan and greeted the people of the neighbouring country on their Independence Day in a telephonic address.
"A case FIR no 84/2015 under Section 13 of Unlawful Activities Act has been registered against Andrabi," a police official said adding there was no mention of her having addressed the terrorist rally.
It is for the second time in the past six months that Asiya publicly resorted to anti-national activities. Earlier she celebrated Pakistan's National Day on March 23 this year and hoisted the flag of country and sung its national anthem, following which the police had registered a case against her under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.
But in both the cases, she was never arrested. "What prevents police from arresting this woman?" asked a retired police official tracking the developments.
Sources said at least two Ministers from the Peoples Democratic Party in a bid to be in the good books of the separatists have been prevailing upon some senior police officials to be "soft towards Asiya Andrabi."
"The two Mantris have been tactfully conveying to a top cop of Kashmir that Asiya not be arrested at any cost," the sources said.
A senior police official, however, downplayed the issue. He said investigations in the case were in progress and, if need be, more sections will be invoked against the separatist leader.
He however remained silent as to why she wasn't arrested at the first instance. |
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