: In Kashmir, one man’s long struggle to get justice for his wife killed by tear gas #IndiaNEWS At the time of his wife’s sudden death in 2019, Mohammad Rafiq Shagoo didn’t think that seeking a

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In Kashmir, one man’s long struggle to get justice for his wife killed by tear gas #IndiaNEWS
At the time of his wife’s sudden death in 2019, Mohammad Rafiq Shagoo didn’t think that seeking a police investigation into the incident would be much trouble.As it turns out, it took a two-year legal struggle for the 43-year-old grocery-store owner to get the police to begin an inquiry into the tragedy.On August 18, more than two years after the death of his wife, Fehmeeda, 34, after she inhaled the toxic smoke from tear gas shells fired by the security forces, a court in Srinagar directed the Jammu and Kashmir police to investigate her death under the supervision of a senior police officer.“There’s no harm in registering an FIR into the incident of the death of the deceased and investigate the circumstances under which the death took place,� said an order issued by Chief Judicial Magistrate, Srinagar.The court said that the investigating officer should not be below the rank of a Deputy Superintendent of Police. It directed the officer to submit a status report on the investigation to the court after every 20 days.‘Sudden cardiac pulmonary arrest’Fehmeeda Shagoo had been working in her kitchen on August 9, 2019, as security forces were engaged in pitched battles with protesters in her neighbourhood of Bemina, on the outskirts...Read more

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