Srinagar, May 28 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the High Court has issued notice to the Inspector General of Police to conduct an inquiry into a custodial disappearance case. It also directed the puppet administration to grant compensation to the kin of the disappeared person.

The petitioners through their counsel advocate Muhammad Ashraf Wani approached the High Court asking for magisterial inquiry into the case and compensation to the kin of the disappeared person.

The petition says that the Pahalgam police in 1987 in a fake case arrested Farooq Ahmad Teli of Devar in Tral along with two other persons. Later when the family members approached the police, they (police) told them that Farooq Ahmed escaped from their custody. Meanwhile the case went to the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Islamabad in which two other persons were acquitted.

Subsequently the family approached the so-called State Human Rights Commission (SHRC), which last year directed the administration to conduct magisterial inquiry in the case and pay Rs 2 lakhs as compensation. However when the administration didn’t abide by the SHRC directions, the family moved to the High Court.