3 months on, no whereabouts of missing armyman

Family demands case must be handed over to CBI

Sarinagar Nov, 11 (PTK) The family and relatives of an Army soldier who was allegedly kidnapped and killed staged a protest in Srinagar alleging authorities are showing no interest in locating the dead body of their beloved son.

Mystery still shrouds the disappearance of the Army soldier, Shakir Manzoor, even as an undated unverified audio had surfaced on social media in which a person, suspected to be a militant, claimed to have killed the abducted soldier Sharik and not returned the body.

Rifleman Shakir Manzoor (24), a resident of Rishipora village of South Kashmir’s Shopian district, was abducted on August 2 this year after he left his home.

His car was later found torched in the neighbouring Kulgam district. His family found his torn clothes with bloodstains at three places in an orchard near his home.

His father Manzoor Ahmed said that: “From past three months we have been approaching everyone but nobody has helped us in retrieving the body. If he has been killed, then please help us to locate his body and if he is alive, then too please help us in locating him,” he said.

According to PTK,Manzoor Ahmed said that nobody came forward to help the family. “We demand that this case should be handed over to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Pertinently his family members have repeatedly appealed the abductors to please let him go and if he has committed some wrong and let him come back to us unharmed and he would leave this job.

Pertinently, days after his abduction, an unverified audio message had surfaced in which the speaker claimed to be a militant, without identifying himself, stating that the abducted solider was killed and buried at an undisclosed location the way slain militants are buried.(PTK)