Barely inside half an hour after being freed by an area police publish in a drug abuse case, a 21-year-old drug addict, who feared the wrath of his father, allegedly trespassed into the official residence of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on high-security Wazarat Highway right here on Friday.
Nonetheless, the Chief Minister was away in New Delhi to satisfy Dwelling Minister Amit Shah to hunt restoration of statehood, finalisation of enterprise guidelines referring to the transaction of enterprise between the elected authorities and the LG, moreover discussing different key points confronting Jammu and Kashmir.
Youth fled after being handed over to father
“The accused drug addict was bailed out at native degree by us in NDPS case underneath Part 8/27 on Friday round 4.15 pm. We had known as his father to the police publish. Nonetheless, the youth was reluctant to return together with his father,” stated a police officer.
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The youth was recognized as Tilak Raj, 21, a local of Kakryal in Katra.
“After we handed over the custody to his father, the youth fled in direction of a bushy space after which scaled the wall of CM’s residence at Wazarat Highway, which is at a brief distance from the police publish,” stated the officer.
The youth was a drug addict who had been concerned in thefts in Kakryal as properly, and round three to 4 FIRs stand registered in opposition to him at Kakryal, knowledgeable the officer.
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Although nothing incriminating was present in his possession, he was utterly intoxicated after we caught him and introduced him to the police publish, he recalled.
The youth was a drug addict and harboured no malicious intentions, he added.
Incident raises safety issues
Nonetheless, the incident has assumed significance as Nationwide Convention leaders have repeatedly raised issues over laxity by safety companies in offering safety cowl to the CM and his father, Dr Farooq Abdullah.
The incident of an abortive assassination bid on Farooq Abdullah that occurred on March 11 at Royal Park in Larger Kailash in Jammu nonetheless stays contemporary within the minds of the folks.
When Farooq Abdullah was leaving the venue round 10.10 pm that evening, accused Kamal Singh Jamwal, 63, a resident of Purani Mandi, allegedly took out his licensed weapon and tried to open fireplace. Safety personnel accompanying Abdullah had foiled the try. The case stays sub judice earlier than a Jammu courtroom.
It might be said right here that Nationwide Convention leaders, together with CM Omar Abdullah, have typically raised the problem of lax safety preparations since J&Ok was downgraded right into a UT from a state in August 2019. Regulation and order is being dealt with by LG Manoj Sinha.