Srinagar, April 29: A boy namely Susheel Raina son of Badrinath resident of Chandrigam is missing since 04.04.2011 from Chandrigam, Ashmuqam police said on April 8.
The description of the missing boy is as under: Age: - 21 years, Height: - 5’-7”, Colour: - Whitish, Hair: - Black, Wearing: - Red Sweater, Jeans Pant and Black Shoes. He is sporting a beard. If traced the above missing person inform accordingly Police Station Ashmuqam on following Contact numbers:-
Mobile No. 9419010650, 9622554429- PCR Islamabad: 01932222870, 01932224371
Susheel Raina, 21, son of Badri Nath Raina of Chandarigam Ashmuqam Islamabad (Anantnag) left home to collect B.A Ist year marks card from Degree College Khanabal on April 4, but didn’t returned.
Susheel’s parents had filed an FIR in the concerned police station. “We appeal to the people to cooperate in tracing the youth and anybody have any information can contact on cell No. 9906564741,” the statement of a pandith community said.
Coming down heavily on the police for failing to trace the missing Pandit youth, the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) on Thursday said that the incident was an indicator about the continued phenomenon of disappearances in Jammu and Kashmir.
21-year-old Susheel Raina, son of Badrinath Raina went missing from Chandergam, Aishmuqam in south Kashmir’s Islamabad district on April 4. Susheel had left his home to collect a certificate from the boys Degree College when he went missing.
“Susheel’s disappearance is an indicator about the continued phenomenon of people disappearing in Jammu and Kashmir. He is not the first one to disappear but if the administration does not allow independent and impartial investigations into the phenomenon of enforced disappearances, unfortunately Susheel will not be the last one as well,” an APDP spokesman said, during a sit-in demonstration at a park in Srinagar on Thursday.
“But when there are cases of common Kashmiris like Susheel no one seems to be interested in investigating these cases. Intelligence agencies are clueless and news analysts are silent,” he said. The spokesman said that the police claims of investigating the disappearance cases in last two decades have neither begun nor ended. In rare cases, the spokesman said where police investigations have indicted the perpetrators, no one has been prosecuted.
“Like so many young men, justice too appears to have been forced to disappear from Jammu and Kashmir. People who seek justice are branded as hardliners and the ones denying justice claim to be the torch bearers of democracy. Democracy is strengthened by truth and justice but here in Kashmir transparency, accountability and truth are the most hated concepts for democrats,” he said. Reiterating its demand for independent investigations into all the cases of enforced disappearances, the APDP urged the government to shun ‘callousness’ and help the family of the Pandit youth establish his whereabouts.