INAM UL HAQ
Manzoor Ahmad Mir, a class four employee, always gave education to his three children top priority. To fulfill his ambition he got his two children enrolled in a private school. He was now preparing for the admission of his third son in the same school. But fate had something else in store for Mir.
Before he could get his son admitted, Mir was taken away by security personnel one night and since then no one body knows what happened to him.
On September 12, 2004 Mir had just finished his evening meals at his home in Sail Charsoo when someone knocked his front gate. Family members say that Mir along with his brother went to see who is on the door.
"There were many uniformed personnel along with three masked men in civvies," says Mir's brother Mohammad Akbar. "They (Armymen) made us all sit at one place and started searching the house. After the search ended, they took my brother," he recalls.
"Once we came to know of the arrest, we went to them and pleaded, but they stopped us with batons and positioned their weapons on us," he said, adding that the family members had no option but to return.
Next day the family went to the police station Awantipora and lodged a FIR against Army. The family suspect involvement of their neighbour (a sub-inspector) and his two sons with whom they had a dispute.
SI Mohmmad Shaban Dar , says Nafeeza, had earlier warned Manzoor of dire consequences. "There is no doubt that Dar along his two sons were escorting the Army," she said. Even after filing a FIR, the Dars were not interrogated.
On the other hand, police had assured Mir's family about his safe release. "The then Superintendent of Police (SP), Awantipora, Shiekh Mahmood told us "Mir is alive, get permission from Home Ministry and we will release him", recalls Nafeeza. But after a few days Mahmood got transferred and the new SP did not even acknowledge the arrest of Mir.
Now Mir's family accuses police of forging the FIR. "Police forged our complaint. We had even mentioned the persons who were with the uniformed personnel, but the FIR copy presented in the court talks of unidentified persons," says Mohmmad Maqbool Mir, maternal uncle of Mir, who helps Hafeeza. "Dar was working as SI in Armed Police's 13 Battalion of which Parihar was a commandant."
Though family has filed a habeas corpus petition in J-K High Court in April 2005 but police has failed to respond to the petition. With an aged father and three small children Nafeeza has to deal with acute financial problems. She is now spinning wheel to meet her ends. "I could not send my third child to a private school as Manzoor wanted," she said. It was tough for her to pay for education of the other two, but "they have exempted them from the fee", she explains.
Manzoor Ahmad Mir, a class four employee, always gave education to his three children top priority. To fulfill his ambition he got his two children enrolled in a private school. He was now preparing for the admission of his third son in the same school. But fate had something else in store for Mir.
Before he could get his son admitted, Mir was taken away by security personnel one night and since then no one body knows what happened to him.
On September 12, 2004 Mir had just finished his evening meals at his home in Sail Charsoo when someone knocked his front gate. Family members say that Mir along with his brother went to see who is on the door.
"There were many uniformed personnel along with three masked men in civvies," says Mir's brother Mohammad Akbar. "They (Armymen) made us all sit at one place and started searching the house. After the search ended, they took my brother," he recalls.
"Once we came to know of the arrest, we went to them and pleaded, but they stopped us with batons and positioned their weapons on us," he said, adding that the family members had no option but to return.
Next day the family went to the police station Awantipora and lodged a FIR against Army. The family suspect involvement of their neighbour (a sub-inspector) and his two sons with whom they had a dispute.
SI Mohmmad Shaban Dar , says Nafeeza, had earlier warned Manzoor of dire consequences. "There is no doubt that Dar along his two sons were escorting the Army," she said. Even after filing a FIR, the Dars were not interrogated.
On the other hand, police had assured Mir's family about his safe release. "The then Superintendent of Police (SP), Awantipora, Shiekh Mahmood told us "Mir is alive, get permission from Home Ministry and we will release him", recalls Nafeeza. But after a few days Mahmood got transferred and the new SP did not even acknowledge the arrest of Mir.
Now Mir's family accuses police of forging the FIR. "Police forged our complaint. We had even mentioned the persons who were with the uniformed personnel, but the FIR copy presented in the court talks of unidentified persons," says Mohmmad Maqbool Mir, maternal uncle of Mir, who helps Hafeeza. "Dar was working as SI in Armed Police's 13 Battalion of which Parihar was a commandant."
Though family has filed a habeas corpus petition in J-K High Court in April 2005 but police has failed to respond to the petition. With an aged father and three small children Nafeeza has to deal with acute financial problems. She is now spinning wheel to meet her ends. "I could not send my third child to a private school as Manzoor wanted," she said. It was tough for her to pay for education of the other two, but "they have exempted them from the fee", she explains.
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