SRINAGAR: The Army on Monday said it has no scheme of rewarding personnel with Rs 10 lakh for killing a terrorist, as was mentioned in media reports on the Amshipora “fake encounter” case. The reports had quoted the 300-page chargesheet filed by the special investigation team (SIT) of the J&K, submitted before the chief judicial magistrate of Shopian district on December 28.
“It is clarified that the Army has no system of cash awards for its personnel for any acts of combat situations or otherwise in the line of duty. The report is mala fide (misleading) and not based on facts of the processes internal to Army,” Colonel Kalia said.
3 Kashmir Youths’ Death Under Cloud As Families Cry ‘Fake Encounter’
The families alleged the trio were friends and had gone to Kashmir University in Srinagar for academic registration. PTI File Photo Naseer Ganai 2020-12-30T20:33:48+05:30 3 Kashmir Youths’ Death Under Cloud As Families Cry ‘Fake Encounter’ outlookindia.com 2020-12-30T22:05:54+05:30
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Their families alleged that they are civilians and were at home with them until yesterday.
They protested outside the police control room (PCR) Srinagar, saying the slain youths were not militants. They said the trio were friends and had gone to Kashmir University in Srinagar for academic registration.
Killing of Rajouri youths: Police chargesheet Captain, 2 civilians
Both the Army and the J&K Police had earlier claimed that the three youths were unidentified militants and had buried them discreetly in a graveyard in north Kashmir s Baramulla. Updated: December 27, 2020 7:48:41 am
The extension given to the Delimitation Commission means another year’s delay in holding Assembly elections in J&K. (Express Photo/File)
More than five months after three Rajouri youths
were killed in Shopian in an Army operation on July 18, the J&K Police has filed a chargesheet, accusing an Army Captain and two civilians for their alleged abduction and murder.
It was not just development. Dec 20, 2020 · 09:00 am A woman casts her vote in the first phase of the District Development Council in Jammu and Kashmir on November 28. | PTI On the morning of December 16, Nisar Ahmad had left home in the biting cold. By 8am, he was at the polling station in Naidkhai village in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district. He meant to vote. At 1pm, Ahmad had still not cast his vote. “The line is just not ending,” he said as he waited for his turn in a queue stretching nearly 200 metres from the polling booth. “We know polling is scheduled to end at 2pm but the officials assured us that everyone will be given a chance to cast their ballot. We will wait till dark to cast our vote.”