Muzaffarabad, Apr 6: Family members of the former militant commander Muhammad Ahsan Dar on Wednesday rejected the police claim that he was involved in the murder of Nazir Ahmad Lone of Kreeri Baramulla in north Kashmir.
 Dar’s elder son Zubair Ashan Dar termed the accusations leveled against Dar as “unfounded and uncalled for.”
 “The police have in fact no legal justification to put him (Dar) behind the bars and that is why they crafted a fictitious and concocted story against him”, Zubair told Greater Kashmir.
 “How come a person under judicial custody can be involved in such an act”, he said adding that the Deputy Inspector General of Police had admitted the fact that “My father was in jail at the time when the incident took place”. Terming it as a “sheer vengeance” he said, “The authorities’ ultimate motive is to let him languish in jail and nothing else as a matter of the fact he was never released from the jail”, he said.
 Zubair said that his father had developed many health problems due to years-long incarceration and urged the human rights organizations to take cognizance of his deteriorating health. “He is now 53-year old and is ill for last several months and needs a medical check up on regular basis”, he maintained.
 Earlier, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen had also described Police claim that two former commanders, Muhammad Ahsan Dar and Muzaffar Ahmad Dar, had planned to kill 16 civilians in Kreeri and Palhalan areas.
 “No Hizb commander can be involved in such heinous crimes,” the Hizb spokesman had said.

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