Family Wins Case After 39 Years

SRINAGAR BLAST

- M Ahmad

A court here on Thursday awarded around Rs 16.60 lakhs compensation to a family from Safa Kadal Srinagar over the death of its 20-year-old member in a blast at an exhibition centre four decades ago.

The suit had been filed by one Mohammad Yousuf Shah before the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir on 29 May 1986 and it was subsequently transferred to 2nd Additional District Judge Srinagar by virtue of the order on 14 July 1995.

In the suit, Shah, who passed away since and was subsequently represented through his legal heirs including his wife and children, had pleaded that his 20-year-old son, Avis Ahmed, died of severe injuries sustained by him in a blast at an exhibition arranged by the government at exhibition ground Srinagar in September-October 1985.

Shah had pleaded that admission to the exhibition ground was neither free nor unregulated and that the erstwhile State Government was also expected to take steps for maintenance of law and order, security and safety of all who enter the exhibition and also of those who run various stalls in the exhibition.