The Jammu and Kashmir Police are believed to have
rejected the Delhi Police’s claim of recovery of an AK-47 rifle from
Kashmiri militant Liaquat Ali Shah alias Kaka Khan, claiming that they
were waiting for his surrender when he was allegedly arrested near
Gorakhpur, close to the India-Nepal border.
Highly placed sources told The Hindu
that the Delhi Police were “under pressure” to hand over the detained
militant to the J&K Police after the senior State Police officials
in Jammu communicated to the Home Ministry that the story carried by the
media regarding Liaquat’s arrest was “not perfectly correct.” The
J&K Police officials are understood to have claimed that they were
informed of Liaquat’s arrival at Kathmandu and his desire to surrender
before Kupwara District Police 15 days ago.
“We had
been informed of his [Liaquat’s] arrival along with his wife, son and
daughter by air via Nepal some 15 days ago by his family members and
other sources managing his surrender,” senior police officials said.
“We
made it clear to the family that we could accept only the surrender of
the militants who return from Pakistan and PoK, alone or along with
their families, through the routes designated in the 2010
surrender-cum-rehabilitation policy of the State government. We made it
clear to them that Nepal and Gorakhpur routes are not covered in the
policy. But when they insisted, we decided to accept his surrender with
the condition that he would not be entitled to the benefits of the
surrender policy. Thereafter, we kept waiting for him till we got the
news of his arrest by Delhi Police,” top ranking sources in the J&K
Police said. According to them, seizure of AK-47 rifle and grenades from
the detained militant at a hotel in Delhi was “doubtful.”
Director-General of J&K Police, Ashok Prasad, refused to comment. “This case is being handled by the Delhi Police,” he told The Hindu. He said that J&K Police CID was in touch with the Delhi Police on details about the detained militant.
Senior
Superintendent of Police, Kupwara, Mohammad Irshad too declined to
comment on the militant’s surrender and arrest. He, however, said that
Liaquat of Dardpora village crossed the LoC and joined a militant
training camp in PoK in 1995. According to him, he returned in 1996,
remained active as a militant for about a year and went back to Pakistan
in 1997. “In police records, he is missing since 1997 and married a
Pakistani woman.” He said that there was no criminal case registered
against him at any police station in Kupwara district.
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/we-were-waiting-for-his-surrender-say-jk-police/article4539024.ece
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