SRINAGAR (AA): Police in Indian Illegally Occupied Kashmir (IIOK) has charged an army captain and his two accomplices for killing three local labourers and calling them ‘militants’.
According to a charge sheet filed in a local court, the district police said that the army officer had staged a gunfight in South region of the disputed valley on July 8 to make it appear like a clash with ‘militants’.
In this regard, a special investigation team, which was tasked to probe the fake encounter, filed a 300-page charge sheet against the army officer.
Wajahat Hussian, deputy superintendent of police, said that the charge sheet has been filed against three persons in the Principal and Sessions Court Shopain area. The accused were identified as Capitan Bhupinder Tabish Ahmad, and Bilal Ahmad, residents of Shopain and Pulwama districts respectively.
Earlier on Thursday, the Indian army claimed that the process of summary of evidence was completed about the fake encounter in which three labourers of Rajouri district of Jammu region were killed.
The army added that the authorities concerned, along with legal advisers, were examining the case for further proceedings. Seventy days later, the bodies of the slain young men were handed to their families after DNA samples matched with their kin. On September 18, the army had admitted that three “militants” killed in Shopian were, in fact, civilians from Rajouri.
