SRINAGAR, FEB 07 : The Congress on Wednesday said the situation in Jammu and Kashmir is “at its worst” as it blamed the escape of LeT militant from a hospital in Srinagar as a “failure” of the BJP-PDP government.
Raising the issue in the Rajya Sabha during Zero Hour, Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad said the escape of Naveed Jat alias Abu Hunzullah from the SMHS hospital on Tuesday, “doesn’t reflect good” on the state or the country.
“I have been reiterating that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir is its worst. “On Tuesday a LeT militant escaped when he was being taken to the S.M.H.S hospital for a medical checkup from Srinagar Central Jail in the morning,” he said.
Calling Hunzullah’s escape “the first such incident in last 20 years, Azad said: “Such incidents used to happen in 1990s.”
“He could have been taken to an Army hospital. Why was he taken to SMHS (Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital),” Azad said. It is a multi-speciality hospital in the Karan Nagar area of Srinagar.
Hunzullah escaped when the waiting militants fired at the police party outside the hospital. One policeman was killed, while another was injured, and died later at the hospital. (PTK)
