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Jammu: The ruling
National Conference Monday brought an adjournment motion in the
Jammu and Kashmir assembly to discuss and debate the issue of the
arrest, by Delhi Police, of militant Liyaqat Ali Shah. The speaker
disallowed the motion.
The adjournment motion was moved by the National Conference's
provincial president Nasir Aslam Wani and three others of his
party, seeking a discussion on the subject of why a Kashmiri was
being targeted, particularly when he was on his way home to
surrender to police.
Speaker Mubarak Gul, however, disallowed the adjournment motion,
saying that since Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has already taken
up the matter with union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and
sought a probe into the whole affair by the National Investigation
Agency, the adjournment motion did not hold water.
There are two conflicting versions on the arrest of Liyakat Ali
Shah, a militant of the Hizb-ul-Mujahadeen. While Delhi Police
believe he was part of a terrorist plot aimed at striking in the
union capital, Jammu and Kashmir Police say he was on his way back
home from Pakistan to surrender, under the rehabilitation policy
of the government.
The rehabilitation policy, announced by Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah in 2010, is meant to encourage those militants wishing to
return to the mainstream from Pakistan-administered Kashmir to lay
down arms and return to their families.
The surrendered militants, however, will continue to be tried by
the courts if cases are pending against them.
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