Mehbooba Mufti Throws Microphone at Held Kashmir Assembly Speaker
SRINAGAR: There was ruckus in the Assembly of Indian occupied Kashmir on Monday with legislators of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) stalling the proceedings by shouting slogans against the Indian government over the Shopian murders.
The PDP legislators gathered near the speaker’s podium and Mehbooba Mufti even tried to fling a microphone at the speaker.
The incident occurred after PDP leaders started raising slogans over the Shopian incident in which two women were raped and murdered in May.
Led by party president Mehbooba Mufti, PDP legislators started shouting slogans like “Produce the killers of Shopian” as the assembly session began.
After repeated requests by the speaker failed to restore order, he ordered the dismissal of the PDP MLAs from the floor of the House. The MLAs, however, refused to leave and police officials had to forcibly escort them out of the assembly.
Pandemonium continued in the assembly till the PDP legislators were taken out of the House.
Mehbooba Mufti later accused the Speaker of using “unparliamentarily” language and acting more like a “ruling NC worker” in the House.
Mehbooba Mufti said, “I took on the Speaker as he was ordering PDP MLAs out.”
“We did nothing wrong. Speaker was at fault, she added.
PDP MLAs led by Mehbooba Mufti are now staging a sit-in dharna outside the assembly.
Meanwhile, the bail applications of IoK police officers Javed Iqbal Mattoo and Rohit Baskotra, arrested in connection with the sensational Shopian murder case, will come up for hearing on Monday at a court in Shopian.
The pleas of the two officers were moved on Sunday before the sessions court by senior Supreme Court lawyer Asim Mehrotra who flew into Srinagar to argue the case on behalf of Mattoo and Baskotra.
Mehbooba Mufti Throws Microphone at Held Kashmir Assembly Speaker was first posted on July 27, 2009 at 3:05 pm.
Woman Among 2 killed in Kashmir
Srinagar: A woman was killed after she was hit by a stone while a youth died and six others were injured in different road accidents in the Kashmir valley where two houses were gutted overnight, official sources said here today.
They said a woman Marah Jan was grazing her cattle in the woods at Kupwara when a stone came and hit her on the head.
She was immediately rushed to hospital where she died. Two people were injured critically when a vehicle hit their motorcycle at Shikargah near petrol pump.
The injured were admitted to a hospital where a resident of Nowgam Shiraz Ahmad Dar, who had married only five months ago, died.
The condition of another injured was stated to be critical.
Sources said four people were injured when a recovery van in which they were travelling met with an accident at Kurhama in Ganderbal district. The injured were admitted to hospital. A motorcyclist was injured after he was hit by a vehicle at Boulevard road on the bank of Dal Lake. He was hospitalised.
Sources informed fire gutted two houses at Ghat Narbal and Zakoora. The cause of fire was not known, they added.
Woman Among 2 killed in Kashmir was first posted on July 21, 2009 at 5:26 pm.
