Senior PDP leader Naeem Akhtar, who was arrested in December, was admitted to a personal hospital on Thursday after he fell unconscious in a sub-jail in Srinagar.
Naeem Akhtar’s family says they weren’t even knowledgeable by the Jammu and Kashmir administration when the incident occurred. (File photograph)
Former Jammu and Kashmir minister and senior Individuals’s Democratic Celebration (PDP) leader Naeem Akhtar was found unconscious in a sub-jail room in Srinagar and was shifted to a hospital on Thursday. The family members of the 68-year-old politician accused the Jammu and Kashmir administration of deliberate “harassment” in opposition to him.
Naeem Akhtar was found unconscious round midnight on Thursday and his family says they weren’t even knowledgeable by the administration when the incident occurred.
“He was unconscious for about 40 minutes. Something might have occurred to him. He’s an previous man with well being situations. Any physician will inform them how harmful it’s to maintain such a one who has a heart-related situation in confinement like that. A senior police officer was form sufficient to tell me round midnight that my father was rushed to the hospital. Fortunately the man detainees sounded an alarm after seeing him unconscious,” mentioned Shehryar Khanum, Akhtar’s daughter.
Atleast a senior police officer had the courtesy to tell me round midnight that my father @shangpal in detention was in hospital after he was unconscious for 40 minutes. Saved by a whisker – some days again on their own in the entire constructing. Grateful to his fellow detenues. Prayers!
— Shehryar Khanum (@shehryar_khanum) January 14, 2021
She additionally accused the administration of maltreatment in direction of her father. “This appears to be deliberate. He isn’t a convict. He’s a politician. What crime are they holding in opposition to them? There wasn’t a single physician out there for him in the sub-jail,” mentioned Shehryar Khanum.
Each physician with diploma and expertise that I spoke to about my father’s situation is baffled at the necessity to hold a 68 12 months previous man with acute cardiac historical past in sub zero temperatures in a place that’s not residence. https://t.co/mf1clxgKXl
— Shehryar Khanum (@shehryar_khanum) January 14, 2021
Family sources mentioned he’s at the moment being handled on the Khyber hospital. He situation is reported to be steady and medical investigations are being carried out.
Senior leader Naeem Akhtar is a shut aide of PDP president Mehbooba Mufti. He was first detained in August 2019 and later booked below the Public Security Act (PSA), and launched in June final 12 months after 10 months of detention. He was once more arrested in December final 12 months simply forward of counting of votes for the District Growth Council and lodged in a authorities constructing declared as a sub-jail.