Police pressurised my daughter to give a video statement: Mother

“My daughter is just 16 years old and was pressurised by the police to give that statement,” her mother told reporters in Srinagar.

Talking to reporters, the girl’s mother alleged that the police detained her daughter without informing the family.

“After leaving from her school on Tuesday, she went to a public toilet and was followed by an army man. She had raised an alarm, attracting attention of the nearby shopkeepers. The policemen also came to the scene but the army man fled,” the mother said.

“She was then taken to a police station without even informing us,” the mother said.

“We have approached court and demand an independent inquiry into the incident. We don't trust the police or the Army, those who have been behind the matter,” she said.

“We were not allowed to meet our girl. Her father and aunt were also detained. We do not have any information of our arrested daughter for the last five days,” she said.

She said the police “defamed” her daughter by revealing her identity to the media.

Five civilians have died in firing by security forces on protesters since Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir.

The incidents occurred as protesters were demonstration against alleged molestation in Handwara town of Kupwara district.

(Reporting by  Saleem Iqbal Qadri)