Bhim Singh demands probe against Mufti's decisions as Home Minister
New Delhi, Jun 6 (UNI) Panthers Party Chief Bhim Singh today demanded setting up of a high-power committee to probe senior Kashmiri leader Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's decisions, including the unconditional release of five militants in exchange of his kidnapped daughter, during his tenure as the Union Home Minister.
In a memorandum to Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, submitted in a meeting, Mr Singh said the series of decisions and their subsequent fall out must be probed as they ''threatened the sovereignty and integrity of India''.
''An inquiry should be held the circumstances that led to the release of the five terrorists from Kashmir jail who were detained by the Jammu and Kashmir government in 1989,'' he added.
The memorandum also demanded an inquiry into the ''high-profile drama of the alleged kidnapping'' of Mr Sayeed's daughter-- Rubaiya Sayeed.
''That resulted in exchange unconditional release of the the terrorists'' it added.
It urged that the committee should also find-out the ''relationship'' between Mr Sayeed and the terrorists at that time.
''It is in the interest of assessing the real threat to the security of the state from the Mufti-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),'' it added.
Besides, the Panthers Party Chief said the circumstances that led to the mass exodus of scores of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley in 1990 and burning of Hindu temples in Anantnag in 1985 should also be probed.
Mr Sayeed became India's first Muslim Home Minister in 1989 in the Cabinet of Mr V P Singh.
His third daughter Rubaiya Sayeed was kidnapped by terrorists on December 8 1989, five days of his taking office.
UNI