IIOJK court acquits five youth in 15-yr-old false case after long legal ordeal
Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), Kashmiri youths often endure years of imprisonment and prolonged legal battles in fabricated cases before being eventually acquitted by courts. In yet another such case, a court has acquitted five youths after 15 years of legal proceedings.
According to Kashmir Media Service, an Islamabad district court cleared Abdul Rehman Butt, Mushtaq Ahmad Wani, Zafar Ahmad Wani, Abdul Rashid Wani, and Javed Ahmad Ansari of all charges.
The case of Abdul Rehman Butt was represented by Advocate Arjumand Reshi, while the remaining four were defended by Advocate Riaz Ahmad Ganai in the court of Additional Sessions Judge Masarat Roohi.
The youths were accused of attacking an Indian forces’ patrol with stones and sticks at Batakoot in Pahalgam area of Islamabad district on June 20, 2011.
The case was registered in December 2011, with charges framed in July 2013. After years of proceedings, the court ruled that the prosecution had failed to prove the allegationsand ordered their acquittal.
