Hurriyat’s Tail Will Never Straighten : Draging Of Geelani’s Body In Pakistan Flag
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a faction leader of the Hurriyat Conference condemned the filing of an FIR over the draping of hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s body in a Pakistani flag following his death last week.
By now Umar Farooq should have been crystal clear. Any one who disrespects Mother India will be made to pay for it. Any one who tries to hurt us will be maimed I if not killed.
So the police have rightly registered a FIR against unnamed people under various provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Indian Penal Code over the draping of Geelani’s body in a Pakistani flag and the alleged raising of “anti-national” slogans after his death. Such things will no longer be tolerated or overlooked.
However, as the police moved in to take over the body, the late separatist leader’s aides removed the flag, officials had said earlier.
Geelani died on Wednesday night at his residence in Srinagar after a prolonged illness. The body was laid to rest at a graveyard in a nearby mosque. In a statement, the Hurriyat said it denounced the filing of the FIR against Geelani’s family. The Hurriyat can keep denouncing it but the Law will take its course.
Hurriyat it seems has issued a statement saying “The details shared by Geelani’s son in media that the authorities took the body of the 92-year-old leader into their custody, and buried it on their own without the knowledge and participation of the family is appalling and painful to hear.
It is so tragically inhuman when a family is denied the basic right of burial of their loved one and one can only imagine what the family must have gone through. After such harshness the authorities are now harassing the family with FIRs and threats of arrests. ”
The Hurriyat said the people of Kashmir stand with Geelani’s family “in this hour of grief and injustice”.
Hurriyat is forgetting that people of India too stand by the Constitution and the Law. No matter what, the wrong doers will be hauled up and punished.
