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| 'Ghosts' unleash terror near Azad's Srinagar residence | | | Abdul Majid
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 23: 'Ghosts' last night unleashed terror in high security Hyder Pora locality near the private residence of former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad here even as police said nobody has filed any complaint.
The residents of Hyder Pora and adjoining Paray Pora said last night there was repeated banging on the main gates of several houses of the twin localities while many believed that it was a black bear-like beast on prowl in the area.
Amid banging and unusual movement of the "beast", by midnight the locals started making phone calls to each other asking them not to venture out of their houses. "The stray dogs also kept barking for the whole night in the locality, a hint that there was an unusual movement outside."
The fear remained so high that rarely any of the locals made it to mosque for pre-dawn Fajr prayers. At Masjid-e-Ibrahim, which falls on the high-security Airport Road, the attendance of devotees remained surprisingly thin. "Usually there used to be around sixty to seventy people for the Fajr prayers but today not more than ten of us turned up," Sageer Ahmed,a local told Early Times.
Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Ghulam Nabi Azad's residence falls at a stone's throw from the area, which is among the highly fortified routes in the summer capital. The residents questioned how any beast could reach the densely populated area when there's no forest in the vicinity. "Such a scare can be true for places like Nishat which fall at thre heels of Zaberwan hills, but for Hyder Pora it's unbelievable," the locals said.
Many associated the incident with the era of '90s when militancy was at its peak in Kashmir. "Those days militants or government gunmen would frighten people in the garb of being ghosts. It seemed to be repeat of the same," said a retired bureaucrat living in the area. "Otherwise it's not possible for wild animals to surface in an urban locality," he added.
The inhabitants however said they didn't inform police. "It's duty of the police to keep track of such developments," they said.
The police said nobody has come forward with any such complained. "I inquired from a number of people but none of them complained of the same," the senior police official said. "Still we'll look into the matter" they assured. |
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