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| (Anti)-National Conference provides legal assistance to stone-pelters | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 5: What could be seen as inciting trouble in Kashmir, the main opposition National Conference has been providing legal assistance to stone-pelters who have vandalised public and private property for the last three months.
Police have launched a massive crackdown across the Valley against stone-pelters and books them under various charges including the Public Safety Act in order to restore normalcy.
But look what the NC is doing. It has hired a group of lawyers who plead the cases of stone-pelters and who are part of separatists. It is seen as supporting the ongoing turmoil.
"These lawyers have offered services to various stone-pelters to ensure their release so that they return to the streets with stones and create law and order problem," sources said. "Three lawyers are being paid by the NC to plead the cases of stone-pelters and some are also part of separatist groups," a senior NC leader confirmed.
Providing legal assistance to the stone-pelters is a U-turn from its stand in 2010 agitation when the NC which was in power then used to call those who were arrested as drug addicts. The party also endorsed Omar Abdullah government's decision to put those behind bars who were creating law and order problem. Now the NC has been slamming the government for arresting those who participate in violent protests. But during 2010 when 120 people lost their lives, Omar used to say that it was imperative for restoration of law and order to arrest those who indulge in stone pelting.
Omar Abdullah on Wednesday also said that slapping of PSA cannot be an acceptable modus operandi of the state's security forces in dealing with a political situation.
The PDP has also accused the NC of instigating violence and said most of the stone-pelters apprehended by police are NC workers.
This is not the first U-turn of the NC. Earlier, party president Dr Farooq Abdullah, who was once advocating bombardment of Pakistan, called for restraint after Indian army's surgical attacks on the neighbouring country.
The surgical strikes in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir were well hailed across the country, but it was Farooq Abdullah who called for restraint while his son and former CM, Omar Abdullah, maintained silence.
Similarly, the father-son duo has been demanding release of youth who participated in stone pelting.
Similarly in 2013, when Omar was the CM, he asked the government of India to answer a fire with a fire if Pakistan continued to violate cease-fire along the LoC and International Border. |
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