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An apology to Mufti

By Our Staff Reporter

Jammu July 13. The National Conference president, Omar Abdullah, has offered an unconditional apology to the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, for alleging that some medical equipment had been shifted to his residence for his own as well as his mother's treatment.

During a press conference on Saturday he charged that a dental chair and a short-wave physiotherapy unit had been shifted from the Srinagar Dental Hospital and the SKIMS and that the patients were suffering on account of this. He said that the Mufti owed an explanation why he had "misused" his official position and even deployed a SKIMS physiotherapist at his residence.

But later Mr. Abdullah clarified that it was for another family member of the Mufti for whom the equipment had been shifted and not for his mother who had actually passed away in 1992.

Mr. Abdullah, however, stood by the other allegations and urged the Chief Minister to return the equipment to the hospitals.

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