Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir): The Srinagar police on Wednesday carried out raids at the residences of three lawyers, including former Kashmir High Court Bar Association president Mian Abdul Qayoom. The raids were conducted early in the morning as part of a probe launched against the killing of an advocate Babar Qadri.
"Srinagar police conducting searches at the residence of Adv Miyan Qayoom, Adv Manzoor Dar and Adv Muzzaffar Mohd in connection with further #investigation of #murder of Adv Babar Qadri, FIR No 62/2020 of PS Lal Bazar," Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Kashmir Zone, Vijay Kumar said in a tweet.
Babar Qadri was killed by unidentified gunmen on September 24 in 2020 and police had said that militants had killed him inside his house in the Hawal area of Srinagar. Qadri, who was a vocal critic of the bar association leadership, particularly of Qayoom, had claimed a threat to his life three days before he was shot dead.
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Mian Qayoom was the president of the High Court Bar Association and was jailed ahead of the abrogation of Article 370 in Tihar jail under the Public Safety Act in the matter. He was released after more than a year of imprisonment.
Following the killing of Babar Qadri, Jammu and Kashmir police chief Dilbagh Singh had said that his killing was ordered, instructed, and instigated by terror handlers from Pakistan. Vijay Kumar, Additional Director General of Kashmir police had said that TRF militant commander Abbas Sheikh and his associate Saqib Manzoor were also involved in the killing of advocate Babar Qadri. Both of them were killed by security forces in August last year in Srinagar.
