Days after the Indian Army completed its investigation into allegations that three labourers were killed in a fake encounter, and buried a...
Days after the Indian Army completed its investigation into allegations that three labourers were killed in a fake encounter, and buried as unidentified militants, the Jammu and Kashmir Police has filed a charge sheet against three persons, including an Army captain.
The 1,400-page charge sheet was filed in the court of the chief judicial magistrate, Shopian, on Saturday in the killings of Rajouri residents Imtiyaz Ahmed, Abrar Ahmed and Mohammed Abrar. It was filed by the head of the Special Investigation Team.
The three accused were identified as Captain Bhoopendra Singh of the Army’s 62 Rashtriya Rifles, Bilal Ahmed Lone and Tabish Nazir. The police said Bilal Ahmed Lone had turned approver in the case.
A police statement said that during investigation, it came to light that a conspiracy was hatched by the accused to abduct the civilians and stage the gunfight.
“They [the accused] deliberately and purposefully chose not to follow SOPs [standard operating procedures], they planted illegally acquired weapons and material on their [the civilians] dead bodies after stripping them of their identities and tagged them as hardcore terrorists in possession of war-like stores and deliberately providing false information to colleagues/senior,” the police said.
Using the information obtained from the accused during interrogation, the Special Investigation Team...
