ISLAMABAD: A leaked audio call between an Indian journalist, Munish Sharma, asking one of his subordinates to distort information about the killing of Mukhtiar Hussain Shah, who died on April 27 in police custody, has exposed Indian brutalities and human rights violations in Indian Illegally-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
According to Kashmir Media Service, in the audio leak, Sharma could be heard asking Balkar Singh from Amar Ujala Newspaper, Samba, about filing a news story to cover up the incident.
Mukhtiar Hussain Shah was taken into custody on April 21 for investigation by the Indian police on suspicion of his links with the Poonch attack in which many Indian soldiers were killed. He was briefly released and then summoned on April 26 for interrogation, but he died under mysterious circumstances.
Locals of the Mendhar area blocked the road in protest over his death. India-based web portal ‘The Wire’ wrote that exposing the plan to cover up Mukhtiar Hussain’s killing was a big success for the Pakistani intelligence agency. The portal admitted that Pakistani intelligence agencies can foil the enemy’s designs on its soil.
An Indian news outlet reported that the family of 48-year-old Mukhtar, who died after being called a suspect in the Poonch attack case, has dubbed the magisterial investigation ordered by the puppet administration in IIOJK as an “official cover-up”.
Demanding a judicial probe into the death of Mukhtiar, his family alleged that the order of the magisterial inquiry was “full of discrepancies”.
A video on Mukhtiar’s phone showed him speaking incoherently and breaking down multiple times while alleging that he, his family, and the neighbours were tortured in the aftermath of the attack. — APP
