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Bribery case: Youth confesses to mimicking Farooq's voice
Sunday November 06, 2011 09:55:15 PM,
IANS
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Srinagar: In a new
twist to Kashmir's bribes-for-berth case, a local youth Sunday
confessed he used to mimic union Renewable Energy Minister Farooq
Abdullah to facilitate the bribes sought by National Conference
(NC) worker Sayeed Muhammad Yousuf.
Mimic artist Aizaz Malik, belonging to south Kashmir's Anantnag
district, Sunday recorded his statement under section 164 of the
Criminal Procedure Code, before a magistrate in Pulwama, accepting
that he used to mimic Abdullah at Yousuf's behest.
Yousuf's death in police custody last month has stirred a storm in
Kashmir.
"I used to get Rs.2,000 each time Sayeed Yousuf made me mimic Dr.
Abdullah's voice on the phone," Malik, 24, said in his statement.
A senior police officer here said: "Police had got suspicious of
Aizaz Malik's activities after his proximity to Sayeed Yousuf was
discovered by studying the cell phone record of Sayeed Yousuf. The
two had been in regular contact."
Another National Conference worker, Muhammad Yusuf Bhat, belonging
to north Kashmir's Ganderbal district, had complained to Chief
Minister Omar Abdullah that Yousuf had taken Rs.85 lakh from him
for getting him a ministerial berth.
Bhat had also claimed that Yousuf had called Abdullah in his
presence and told Bhat to listen to the party patron's voice. This
had helped Bhat believe Yousuf had the political clout to get him
a ministerial berth.
Yousuf had died in police custody Sep 30, a day after Omar
Abdullah ordered his arrest by the local crime branch.
His family had alleged his custodial killing, but the post mortem
report and forensic tests later proved the NC worker had died of
cardiac arrest.
A case of cheating (section 420) and criminal breach of trust
(406) has been registered against Yousuf by the local crime
branch.
Bhat, the complainant, has also recorded his statement under
section 164 before a magistrate in Ganderbal district last week.
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