Police is verifying the complaint registered by father of former student activist turned politician, Shehla Rashid against her and other family members. In the complaint written by her father, Abdul Rashid Shora, to the DGP, Dilbagh Singh, he stated that he is facing death threats from her and demanded an investigation into her alleged “notorious activities”. “I request your good self to order investigations into the conduct of Sakib and his associates, bank details of Shehla Rashid, Asma Rashid, Zubaida and Sakib, property acquired by them at New Delhi, their e-mail accounts and their mysterious financial dealings with Feroz Peerzada, Zahoor Vatali and Rashid Engineer and notorious activities being done by them in the name of Empowerment of Women and Social Justice NGO,” the complaint reads. The Inspector General of Police Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, said that Police is verifying the complaint. “I have forwarded it to SSP Srinagar for verifying it”, he said. Shehla Rashid in her tweet alleged that her father is a wife beater and they acted against him and the Police compliant is a reaction to that. “Many of you must have come across a video of my biological father making wild allegations against me and my mum & sis. To keep it short and straight, he’s a wife-beater and an abusive, depraved man. We finally decided to act against him, and this stunt is a reaction to that”, he said. In his letter, he stated that “the Court of 3rd Additional Munsif, Srinagar… restrained me from staying in my home. Despite getting a legal remedy from the Court of 2nd Additional Sessions Judge, Srinagar who as per his order allowed me to stay at my residence with some conditions but despite that local police failed to implement the court order and restore me in my home.” Since local police did not accompany him to his residence as per the court order, he said, “I went home myself along with court order, wherein I was threatened for life by Sakib and his armed associates at my residence and fearing threat to my life I have run away from Srinagar to Jammu.” He further states: “…I am under a constant threat to my life by my daughter Shehla Rashid Shora who is supported by the elder daughter Asma Rashid and my wife namely Zubaida Shora as well as her security guard namely Sakib Ahmad.” He said that the threat perception started in 2017 when Shehla Rashid jumped all of a sudden into Kashmir politics, which was never approved by him as a father. Divulging further details, he said: “Just two months before the arrest of Zahoor Watali in Terror Funding Cases under UAPA I was called by Zahoor Watali and Rasheed Engineer (Ex-MLA) at Watali’s Residence at Sanat Nagar Srinagar in June 2017 for a sitting and she was in the last semester of her PhD in Sociology after we met they revealed in front of me the trailer of launch of JKPM party and urged me to extend cooperation to merge Shehla Rashid into their game plan, at that point of time Shah Faisal was in the USA on education leave under the patronage of Feroze Peerzada presently President of JKPM party and Zahoor Watali.” He demanded a full security cover in the wake of “threat to his life” along with an investigation into the conduct of her daughter along with his wife.
