Farooq Abdullah seeks probe into detention of cricketers
October 18th, 2009 - 6:59 pm ICT by IANSJammu, Oct 18 (IANS) A day after two cricketers from Jammu and Kashmir were detained and questioned in Bangalore, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy and president of the state cricket body Farooq Abdullah called for a probe in the matter.
Talking to mediapersons in Jammu Sunday afternoon, Abdullah, president of the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA), said: “The entire blame cannot be laid on the Karnataka Police, for they were fed with wrong information by some people from here.”
Abdullah said that he suspected the hand of those in the matter who could not find a place in the team.
Abdullah has asked the director general of police to probe the matter.
“I have asked the director general of police to look into the matter as to who phoned the people in Karnataka, which led to this unfortunate episode.”
Two Kashmiri cricketers of Jammu and Kashmir’s Under-22 team Parvez Rasool and Mehraj-ud-Din, were picked up from their room in Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore Saturday after traces of explosives were found in their bags. They were detained, questioned and later set free.
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