Srinagar, Sept. 25 -- Awami Itihad Party (AIP) has strongly condemned what it termed as a deliberate assault on the dignity of its president and Baramulla MP, Engineer Rashid, inside Tihar jail.

The party alleged that jail authorities terrorised and humiliated him on September 18 and 19 after he refused to withdraw a complaint against the jail superintendent for subjecting inmates to horror, humiliation and torture over the past month.

AIP chief spokesperson Inam Un Nabi, in a statement, said: "After encouraging a murderous assault on Engineer Rashid by two notorious inmates on August31, the situation worsened when Engineer Rashid Sahab stood firm and refused to withdraw his complaint. Instead of forwarding the complaint to higher autho...