Islamabad
The family members of a missing scholar staged a protest demonstration in Srinagar, Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) by demanding a fair probe into the disappearance of Hilal Ahmed Dar.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Hilal Ahmed Dar from Bemina area of Srinagar, who was pursuing PhD, went missing on June 14 during a trekking expedition to high altitude Naranag in the Ganderbal district. While his four other friends returned home the same evening, but Dar did not. The family said that Dar was an honest, dedicated and a responsible person.
Police had claimed that Dar has joined militancy, a claim vehemently refuted by the family. The family members emerged in Press Enclave Srinagar on Sunday and staged a peaceful protest, demanding a probe by a neutral agency into the missing incident.—APP
