Barely within half an hour after being freed by a local police post in a drug abuse case, a 21-year-old drug addict, who feared the wrath of his father, allegedly trespassed into the official residence of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on high-security Wazarat Road here on Friday.
Incident raises security concerns
We had called his father to the police post. Though nothing incriminating was found in his possession, he was completely intoxicated when we caught him and brought him to the police post, he recalled. However, the incident has assumed significance as National Conference leaders have repeatedly raised concerns over laxity by security agencies in providing security cover to the CM and his father, Dr Farooq Abdullah. Security personnel accompanying Abdullah had foiled the attempt. The case remains sub judice before a Jammu court.
“The accused drug addict was bailed out at local level by us in NDPS case under Section 8/27 on Friday around 4.15 pm. The incident of an abortive assassination bid on Farooq Abdullah that took place on March 11 at Royal Park in Greater Kailash in Jammu still remains fresh in the minds of the people. When Farooq Abdullah was leaving the venue around 10.10 pm that night, accused Kamal Singh Jamwal, 63, a resident of Purani Mandi, allegedly took out his licensed weapon and attempted to open fire.
However, the youth was reluctant to go back with his father,” said a police officer. “After we handed over the custody to his father, the youth fled towards a bushy area and then scaled the wall of CM’s residence at Wazarat Road, which is at a short distance from the police post,” said the officer.
