Srinagar, September 28 : Indian troops beat up and injured eight political prisoners in District Jail Baramulla. Personnel of Indian Central Reserve Police Force and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) men ruthlessly beat up and injured the detainees when the prisoners peacefully took demonstrations against the miseries and injustice perpetrated by the jail authority. The troops barged into the inside jail premises and ruthlessly beat up and injured Mufti Hilal Ahmad, Hilal Ahmad Palla, Nazir Ahmad Lone, Bashir Ahmad Bukhari, Aashiq Ahmad, Aijaz Ahmad Rishi, Abdul Hamid Butt, and Mohammad Ashraf Kumar.
The High court Bar Associatoin in Srinagar issued a statement said :
The Bar Association has reliability learnt that the detenues and under trial prisoners lodged in District Jail, Baramulla, who had gone on hunger strike a few days back against the in-human treatment meted out to them in the jail and also against their non-production in the courts on the dates of their hearing and also for the non-availability of the medical facilities available in the jail, were beaten by the jail staff, CRPF and ITBPF personnel posted over there on 27.09.2011, in which about a dozen prisoners/detenues suffered brutal injuries and instead of taking them for treatment, they have been made to remain confined to their barracks and not allowed to meet any one.
The Bar Association, while condemning the aforesaid barbaric act of the Jail authorities, particularly that of the Jail Superintendent and his subordinates including CRPF and ITBPF personnel posted over there, has also decided to file appropriate legal proceedings against the culprits in the court of law so as to ensure safety and welfare of the detenues and under trial prisoners lodged in Sub-Jail, Baramulla. In the meanwhile, the Bar Association has also decided to request the International Red Cross to visit the jail immediately and provide necessary medical assistance to the detenues/undertrials who have been beaten by the jail staff and other so-called security personnel posted over there. The Bar Association also requests all the International Human Rights Agencies to take notice of the gruesome act of beating the “prisoners of conscience”, in the jails and impress upon the jail authorities and others to observe international law and the covenants en-acted in this behalf so as to bring to end the sufferings and miseries of the prisoners, at the earliest.