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| FIRs expose Army's hand in civilian |
| People raise anti-police slogans as they carry the body of Nazir Ahmed Deka after it was exhumed in Saloora, 25 km from Srinagar,
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| INDIA
, 3-February-2007
3:44:41 AM |
| At least three separate Indian Army units in Jammu and Kashmir participated in a series of cold-blooded murders of innocent civilians organised by a group of rogue police officers in Ganderbal, near Srinagar.
Documents obtained by The Hindu establish that officers of the 5 Rashtriya Rifles, the 13 Rashtriya Rifles, and the 24 Rashtriya Rifles staged encounters and filed false First Information Reports — to make it appear that the civilian victims were terrorists who had been killed in legitimate counter-insurgency operations.
The murders first came to light last month following an internal investigation into the mysterious disappearance of Kokernag resident Abdul Rahman Padder. A special investigation team of the Jammu and Kashmir Police later established that Mr. Padder's killing was part of a series of murders carried out to make the perpetrators eligible for rewards and promotions.
The fake FIRs
FIR 203, filed by the Army on October 5, 2006, records that "multiple ambushes were laid by 13 RR along with SOG Sumbal and JKP at Baazipora [map location] MT 5735." According to the Army, a Karachi-based terrorist code-named Abu Zahid was killed in the operation. An assault rifle and a wireless set were recovered, it claimed. However, investigators have now determined that the supposed terrorist was in fact Shaukat Khan, a cleric from Banihal in Doda district. Like the other victims, Mr. Khan was reported missing from Srinagar shortly before his death — in this case from the Zadibal area, near the Hazratbal shrine.
Earlier, on February 17, 2006, the 5 Rashtriya Rifles claimed to have shot dead an unidentified terrorist. According to the Army, it recovered a Kalashnikov rifle, ammunition, and a pistol from the body. Now, however, police investigators and local residents have identified the body as that of Kokernag resident Nasir Ahmad Deka. A briefcase Mr. Deka used to store the cheap perfumes he hawked on Srinagar kerbsides was recovered in raids on
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