Locals say J&K youth shot dead by troops in cold blood

Jul 27, 2012 - YUSUF JAMEEL |

Age Correspondent

Srinagar

General-Officer-Commanding of the Army’s Srinagar-based 15 (Chinar) Corps Lt. Gen. Om Prakash reiterated the Army’s stance that the surveillance-cum-ambush operation in which the youth was killed was launched on specific intelligence inputs about movement of two to three militants in the area and that around midnight on Tuesday the troops of 27 Rashtriya Rifles noticed suspicious movement and on being challenged, the militants opened fire on them. “The fire was returned and one person was killed and weapons were also recovered from the spot,” Lt. Gen. Prakash said.
But local residents alleged that the youth who worked for a cement factory in Srinagar and had come home six days ago on the eve of Muslim fasting month of Ramzan was seized by troops from a mosque at Aloosa and then shot dead in cold blood.
J&K’s minister of state for home Nasir Aslam Wani along with DGP, Ashok Prasad, principal secretary home, B.R. Sharma, IGP Shiv Murari Sahai and deputy commission Bandipore Manzoor Lone visited the home of the slain youth and expressed solidarity with the bereaved family on Thursday. Their visit is also seen by local watchers as a rebuff to Army’s claim. A government spokesperson said that the minister and other officials visited the slain youth’s home on the instructions of CM Omar Abdullah to “express condolences with the bereaved family”. Mr Wani and others “while expressing sympathies with the bereaved family said the death of the youth will be properly investigated,” the spokesperson added.

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