Srinagar, October 17, 2012: The family of a Kashmir youth, who went missing from northern Indian state, Punjab, on Sunday, said that the police security agencies abducted their son. Ishtiaq Ahmed Wani, 22, who was working in a private call centre in Punjab's Mohali who is reportedly missing since Sunday from his residence quarter in Mohali.
The father of missing youth, Farooq Ahmad Wani, a resident of Goshbug in Pattan, said “On Sunday, my son came out to buy vegetables near his residence in Mohali and some people who came in a Tata Sumo bearing number JK01N 9949 abducted him.”
He said his younger son, who also works in a private company in the Indian Punjab town, informed them about the abduction.
He said that the family has photographs of the abductors adding, “We have photographs of those people who abducted our son and soon we will get them published in newspapers.”
He said the local police didn’t help them and refused to file a FIR. “We approached police station Sumbal and requested them to file FIR but they refused and asked us to contact Chandigarh police,” Farooq said.
His brother, Mudasir, who lived with Ishtiaq, said: “We sent few boys to police station Mohali Punjab in order to seek help from police, but, instead of helping, Indian policemen chased them with sticks.”
He further said: “I can recognize them because on the morning of 14 October, the abductors came to our residence in Mohali.”
Farooq said that they spoke to abductors on phone and said: “They had purchased new SIM card in Mohali and we managed to get the number. They told us that we are from Pattan.”
Suspecting Indian security agencies of abducting his son, Farooq said, “I fear security agencies may have taken him. I appeal them If they have taken him for questioning, don’t kill him, tell us where is he?” “I am not daring to approach higher authorities, I fear, agencies can do anything,” he said. source Kashmir dispatch Srinagar