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Srinagar, April 17: Police Saturday claimed to have solved the murder case of Jamiat Ahlehadith president Moulana Showkat Ahmad Shah by arresting three persons including the chief of religio-political organization Sout-ul-Haq. Police also claimed that Jamiat’s rival group had hatched the conspiracy to eliminate Maulana with militant support, reports Asem Mohiuddin in Rissing Kashmir.
Addressing media persons here, IGP Kashmir S M Sahai said after killing of Jamiat president in IED blast on April 8, police had set the investigation into motion.“During the probe, the criminal conspiracy behind the killing was unearthed,” he said.
“Some of the members of Jamiat Ahlehadith had shown displeasure over the working of Moulana. They alongwith members of religio-political organization Sout-ul-Haq attempted to dislodge him from the post through electoral process in 2010. However, they could not achieve their goal through electoral process and took an extreme step to assassinate Maulana and hatched the conspiracy to eliminate him,” he claimed.
Sahai said detained Muslim League chairman, Dr Qasim Faktoo who is serving life time imprisonment, hatched the conspiracy with Abdul Gani Dar alias Abdullah Gazalli, president of Sout-ul-Haq after later visited him in jail and discussed the broad contours of conspiracy.
He claimed that the actual execution of the plan was left to one Javaid Ahmad Munshi alias Bill Papa of Chanapora, Srinagar who sought help from Lashkar Commander Abdullah Uni. “He received some material from Abdullah Uni from Sopore and arranged some of it locally. Various parts of execution were done by various other members. However, the actual triggering of the IED was entrusted to one Nisar Ahmad Khan alias Ishaq of Chanapora,” he said.
“The IED was prepared by Javid Ahmad and he handed over it to Nissar, who planted it near mosque gate and exploded it with remote control when Moulana was entering the mosque on April 8,” IGP claimed.
He said, “The conspirators were also in touch with Jameel-ur-Rehman, general secretary of Muzaffarabad based United Jihad Council. The conspirators saw Moulana’s efforts to establish Transworld University” in Kashmir as his compromise with the government. His proximity with certain separatist leaders was also not liked by them”.
“Moulana’s engagement in defusing the sectarian clashes and not allowing his organization to work on the separatist front had also not gone well with these people. Due to his (Moulana’s) efforts to keep Jamiat-e-Ahlehadith away from separatist politics, some members in the organization were not happy with his functioning,” he said.
“Police have arrested Abdullah Gazalli, Bill Papa and Nisar, who are prime accused in executing the murder. Further arrests are expected in connection of the killing as the investigations are on,” IGP added.
