SRINAGAR: An amputated human thumb was on Saturday thrown inside a news agency office here with Kashmir militants claiming it belonged to Tassaduk Dev, brother in law of union parliamentary affairs minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, held hostage by them, reports Press Trust of
India.
The thumb wrapped in cotton and packed in a watch box was thrown inside the local bureau of press trust of India (PTI Saturday evening.
Staff members mistook it to be a bomb and informed police control from immediately.
Police and bomb disposal squad rushed to the spot and discovered the human thumb.
In a statement to local newspapers a spokesman of the Al-Umer Mujahideen, which has claimed responsibility for the abduction of Tassaduk and Puran Anand Sharma, a deputy superintendent of J and K police, said they have decided to dismember Tassaduk Dev.
This decision was taken “in view of continued silence of the government to their demands and due to the statement of Azad saying “he was against negotiating with the captors”.
Tassaduk, a college student, was abducted on September 22 and Puran Anand Sharma two days later.
The captors are demanding re lease of 10 imprisoned militants along with their arms and am munitions.
The fate of seven other abducted persons also hangs in a balance.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 18, 1991
