Ex-Governor - J&K, Jagmohan on Mirwaiz Maulvi Farooq incident, in Jammu and Kashmir

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Mirwaiz Maulvi Farooq the 44-year-old head of the Awami Action Committee perceived to be a moderate militant was departed from his life by three men on the 21st of May, 1990. A surging mass of people wound through the streets of Srinagar in a spontaneous interment procession. The security forces retaliated in self-defence. At the gathering, the crowd shouted 'Maulana ka kaatil kaun? Jagmohan-Jagmohan'. Jagmohan was forced to take moral responsibility and resign. Ex-Governor - J&K, Jagmohan says "Why should the moral responsibility only rest with the government and not somebody else. Not only this but even up to the lower lever you know the DG. They are exposing the other people the DG, the additional DG, the DIG and so on moral responsibility doesn't travel directly from the lowest to the