Farooq Abdullah doesn't want you to see this

Farooq Abdullah doesn't want you to see this
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE

MUMBAI, MAY 13: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah likes playing golf but for some strange reason doesn't want the world to know.

So when a photographer of The Indian Express takes a picture of Abdullah playing golf, he is certainly not happy. Even if it's an innocuous picture showing the golf club on Srinagar's Maulana Azad Road and two gun-wielding guards ensuring the Chief Minister's safety. And nothing of what's happening in the state he's supposed to run.

Still, two Special Security Group officers from the Chief Minister's detail land up on Thursday at the newspaper's office and force the photographer to part with what they think as the ``offending roll.''

One security officer leads the photographer out of the office. ``Hand over the film rolls which carry th CM's picture,'' he says. The other, a Deputy Superintendent, is the police one. But his colleague begins to talk tough. ``Return the film, I am telling you,'' he says.

The two accompany the photographer to his car in which the camera is kept. One officer tries to remove the film in daylight to which the photographer objects. They show some courtesy, bring the photographer and the camera to a room in the office, switch off all the lights and yank the film away. Then they leave, perhaps unaware that one `offending'' frame got away.