Srinagar: Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday requested Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to take swift action and investigate the missing of Bhubaneswar AIIMS student Suhail Aijaz, a native of Kupwara.
“Concerning reports coming in about a Kashmiri student, Suhail Aijaz of Kupwara being kidnapped in Odisha, I request the authorities to investigate & take swift action,” Mufti said in her twitter post tagging CM Naveen and his office in the message.
Meanwhile, CM Naveen Patnaik has assured Mufti that all attempts are being made to trace out the missing student. "Our Government is doing everything to trace Suhail. State police and investigative agencies are on the job and all efforts are being made to trace out the student," Naveen said in a tweet.
On Monday, a suspected Maoist poster was recovered from Bhubaneswar claiming that the Kashmiri youth has been abducted.
The suspected Maoist poster was put up near Baramunda bus stand in Bhubaneswar claiming that Suhail has been kidnapped by the rebels.
In the poster, the left wing extremists have threatened to kill Suhail if their leader Sabyasachi Panda, who is currently lodged in jail, is not released within seven days.
The rebels through the poster also threatened to carry out bomb explosions at various places in the city including railway station if the State Government does not pay heed to their demand.
Meanwhile, the Commissionerate Police has started a probe to check its authenticity, informed Bhubaneswar DCP Satyabrata Bhoi.
Suhail Aijaz, who is a resident of Kupwara district in J&K and a MBBS student at AIIMS, Bhubaneswar has been missing since February 9. The matter came to light after the AIIMS authorities had lodged a complaint in this connection on February 17.