Srinagar, December 14 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the President of High Court Bar Association, Mian Abdul Qayoom has said that the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is trying to hush up the Shopian dual rape and murder case from the day first.

Mian Abdul Qayoom, addressing a seminar in Srinagar, said that the CBI had already announced that the case had been closed when it was still going on and was being monitored by the High Court of the occupied territory.

He said that the CBI personnel harassed the advocates from Shopian on different pretexts. “The family members of the deceased were not spared and were questioned from time to time, if they had any association with the freedom movement particularly with Syed Ali Gilani,” he added.
 
Mian Abdul Qayoom said that Indian agency also violated the directives of the High Court by involving a medical team in exhumation process, which comprised of the people with little expertise.

The Bar President read a letter he had received from an associate professor of the Forensic Department at the Institute of Medical Science, Dr Sudhir K. Gupta, claiming that the four doctors who had conducted the post- mortem of the two Shopian women were either under-qualified or involved in criminal cases.

Addressing the seminar, the founder of Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, Parvez Imroz deplored that the incidents like Shopian had become a routine in the occupied territory.

Others who spoke on the occasion included Ghulam Nabi Shaheen, Dr Shaikh Showkat Hussain, Zaher-ud-din, Dr Altaf Hussain and Mohammad Shafi Khan. The speakers demanded a probe by the United Nations into the incident. »