Paying rich tributes to Advocate Gh. Mohi-ud-Din Regoo on his 18th death anniversary, Chairman Hurriyat (G) Syed Ali Geelani demanded reopening of his murder case.Accusing the state administration of shielding the culprits, Syed Ali Geelani said that like in the case of Pathribal fake encounter, a similar conspiracy was hatched to close the case in which Colonel Bawa and major Ponia of 17 Jath Regiment and a Kashmiri police officer Mushtaq Sadiq were involved.
Paying glorious tributes to advocate Regoo, Syed Ali Geelani said that he (Advocate Regoo) was a brilliant advocate and a staunch supporter of freedom struggle, who was arrested in a joint operation of 17_Jaths and police on the day of 1 February 1998 and was killed in custody and on 3rd February his body parts were through on road.He said that in this case an FIR was lodged and initial investigations were also started, but after some time due to some unknown reasons the case was closed and the identified culprits were provided the safe passage.
Expressing his sympathy and solidarity with the family of advocate Regoo, Syed Ali Geelani appealed to the non government human rights organizations to make a documentation of the unjust killing of a lawyer and help his family in reopening the file.The pro-freedom leader said that there are thousands of such cases in Jammu and Kashmir in which innocent people were killed by Indian Forces, but none of the case was investigated nor was any culprit punished. So it is the moral responsibility of International community to use their influence to investigate the cases of innocent killings by Indian forces in disputed land of Jammu & Kashmir. (KNS)