National Conference today demanded that Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed be tried in courts for his alleged role in various "massacres in which hundreds of people were killed" in the state when he was the Union home minister.
"NC demands that Sayeed stand trial in courts for his involvement in Gawkadal massacre, Bijbehara massacre, Hawal massacre, Kupwara massacre... It is time that the present chief minister of J-K is seen in the court of law facing trial for his role in bloodshed as an ex-Home Minister of India. It is time for the PDP to reply to this," NC spokesman Junaid Mattu told reporters here.
The demand comes days after PDP leader and Minister for Education Naeem Akhtar's reported statement that NC working president and former chief minister Omar Abdullah should face trial for "killing 120 boys" in 2010.
Mattu said Akhtar had no right to speak about human rights violations if "the killings during Sayeed's regime were not killings".
"We cannot forget Sayeed's role in these massacres. If Akhtar does not believe the killings that took place when Sayeed was the home minister were killings and human rights violations, then he (Akhtar) has no right to speak," he said.
The NC spokesman said cases were registered for the killings in 2010, but there were no FIRs in "massacres".
"If there was anyone in the mainstream who was pained by those killings, it was Omar. FIRs have been registered for 2010 killings and we cannot interfere in those cases. But have any FIRs been registered in these massacres in which Sayeed is involved," he said.
