Woman resistance supporter murdered

Her body found in a field; She was booked thrice under PSA

Altaf Baba

(from greaterkashmir.com)

Varmul, Jan 21: Police Sunday recovered bullet-riddled body of Khalida the woman jailed for many months under the draconian Public Safety Act (PSA) for her alleged links with militants. She was released in December last year from Jammu’s Kote Bhalwal jail after three months imprisonment. Police said the body of Khalida daughter of Habibullah Dar of Bahlihiran Varmul was recovered in a field at Rafiabad. She had left her home on Saturday and was missing since then. Police has registered a case and started investigation.

Khalida was arrested on September 19, 2006 at Mawar Handwara when she was, according to police, on way to meet a militant commander. An FIR 245/2006 was registered against her and she was booked under the PSA, but court quashed her PSA on December 16, 2006 and she was released.

Khalida was arrested for the first time in 2002 and the PSA was slapped on her. Court had quashed her PSA. She was again arrested in 2004 and released after a few months of detention.

In her statement to the high court Judge Justice Hakeem Imtiyaz, Khalida has said that a constable of dreaded Special Operations Group (SOG) named Abdul Rashid had falsely implicating her. “ I was at aunt’s home and police arrested me saying I was not a resident of that village,” she had told the Judge.

Khalida had stated before the Judge that a woman sub-inspector named Rani of SOG had tortured her during interrogation, said a lawyer who pleaded her case. “She showed the torture marks to the judge and she was later released,” the lawyer said.

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