Srinagar: Chairman International Forum for Justice and Human Rights (IFJHR) Muhammad Ahsan Untoo on Wednesday termed Rs 20,000 financial aid provided by the district administration Kupwara to torture victim Nasruallah Khan, whose both kidneys were damaged by the soldiers of 27 RR last year, as a joke. In a statement issued here, Untoo said that Rs 20000 ‘aid’ was akin to add salt on the wounds of victim. He said the victim has spent lakhs of rupees on his treatment as his both kidneys were immensely damaged during the “torture and intense beating by the soldiers.”
He was reacting to the reply from the district development commission Kupwara on a petition filed before the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC). Police had also registered an FIR number 63/2017 in police station Diver Lolab, Kupwara. Another FIR 62 was also registered regarding the disappearance of Manzoor Ahmed, the friend and neighbor of Nasruallh Khan, “who went missing inside the army camp at Trehmak, Lolab, Kupwara on August 31, 2017 and till date there is no trace of him.”
According to the reply from the Additional Deputy Commissioner Kupwara, Nasrulalh Khan of Diver, Anderbugh has been paid Rs 20,000 out of district red cross fund. (GNS)
