By Jehangir Ali
Srinagar: Authorities in Jammu on Thursday (November 27) demolished the family home of a journalist who had linked a police officer with suspected narcotics smugglers arrested in a major cross-border drug trafficking racket busted earlier this month.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration, however, denied allegations of selectively targeting Jammu-based journalist Arfaz Ahmad Daing, whose family home was demolished on Thursday morning amid heavy deployment of police and paramilitary troopers.
A senior J&K police officer denied Daing’s allegations against a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) posted as sub-divisional police officer of Jammu (East) who was transferred on October 26.
During a broadcast on News Sehar India, a Jammu-based digital platform with nearly half a million followers and subscribers across social media, Daing had also praised the new DSP who led the team that busted the drug racket.
“There is something going on between the two officers,” the police officer overseeing the drug-related investigation said, wishing to remain anonymous while refusing to specify more details. “We will investigate it.”
A source said that the demolition order was sent to the police by the Jammu Development Authority (JDA) at around 10 pm on Wednesday and that at least three to four heavy excavators were ushered into the area in Jammu’s Channi on Thursday morning to destroy the single-storied structure.
The demolition has rendered Daing’s family, including his elderly parents, his wife and their three children homeless.
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