[Reader-list] And India's persistent shame

[A.K. Malik]

Hi Ms Jabbar,
              Do you have any idea about the Army Laws and Rules?
Regards,

(A.K.MALIK)


--- On Mon, 7/26/10, SJabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: SJabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] And India's persistent shame
> To: "Sarai" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Monday, July 26, 2010, 5:28 PM
> Army not to hand over men accused of
> Macchil fake encounter
> 
> 
> Jammu, July 25: The Indian Army has refused to hand over
> five soldiers,
> including a Colonel and a Major, charged with the killing
> of three villagers
> in Macchil sector of Kupwara
> 
> in April to the Jammu and Kashmir Police.
> The army says that an internal enquiry was on against its
> men for the
> alleged killing of the three in Macchil village in April,
> informed sources
> said Sunday.
> 
> The police had filed the chargesheet in a court against
> Colonel D K Pathania
> and four other soldiers. They were charged with killing the
> three and then
> claiming they died in a shootout. "The five men are facing
> an internal
> enquiry. They cannot be handed over to police unless
> charges against them
> are proved," an army source said. "The army has instituted
> its own enquiry.
> Until the results of that are known, there is no question
> of handing over
> the men to police," the source said.
> 
> Riyaz Ahmad, Mohammad Shafi and Shahzad Ahmad of Nadihal
> village of Rafiabad
> in Baramulla district, killed in the staged shootout, were
> shown as
> "infiltrators". But a persistent enquiry by the state
> police about the place
> where they were buried and publication of pictures of the
> bodies unravelled
> that they were villagers and did not go over to Pakistan.
> They left their
> homes April 27 after being wooed to lucrative jobs with
> army and were killed
> April 30.
>  
> 
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