WARIS FAYAZ
Sopore : Police on Friday said, that they have arrested three persons including a BJP panch on pretext of extortion in north Kashmir’s Sopore.
Police in a statement issued to the Inside Kashmir said, On a complaint received by Mudasir ah Shiekh s/o gh mohd shiekh r/o Panzipora Sopore, son in law of Ghulam Nabi lone s/o ab ahad lone r/o hamdani coloney Nadihal that during the intervening night 3/4 April 2021 that some unidentified persons barged into the in-laws’ house at nadihal along with weapons and asked them to drop at south kashmir, took away two mobile phones and also threatened not to disclose to anyone.
Police Spokesperson said, In this regard FIR no 20 u/s 450, 506 IPC and 7/25 arms act was lodged at PS Panzalla, and investigation taken up.During investigation on technical evidences one panch namely Mehraj u din rather s/o haji mohd Akbar Rather r/o minipora krankshivan Sopore (BJP) was picked up for questioning and he confessed the commission of crime with three more persons namely ; Mohd Saleem Wani s/o Ghulam Rasool Wani r/o Hardpora Achabal Anantnag (Sarpanch), Bashir ah Lone s/o Mohd Shahbhan Lone r/o Nadihal and Mohd Dilawar Khwaja s/o Sonnaulla Khwaja r/o Dachinpora Rohama
During course of investigation three persons called for questioning one mohd Saleem from anantnag who is also a sarpanch of bjp is still at large.
It transpired that Mehraj and Salim had planned to extort money from Lone Traders illegally. Mehraj had contacted Bashir, who further contacted Dilawar for obtaining some imitation weapons for committing the crime. These weapons have also been recovered during investigation, and further efforts are underway to unearth more linkages, added the Police report.
