Police will still investigate families’ claim: Dilbag KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 1/1/2021 11:52:51 PM Families unaware about activities of their children
JAMMU, Dec 31: Director General of Police Dilbag Singh on Thursday said that he has no reason to dispute what a senior army official has stated about Lawaypora encounter in which three “militants were killed”, but added that police will still investigate the claims made by families of slain trio.
“I have no reason to dispute what the GoC Kilo Force (H S Sahi) has stated about the Lawaypora encounter. The families of two slain youth claimed that their children had gone to submit forms at a University, I want to ask them what were their children doing at encounter site if they had gone to submit a form,” DGP Singh said in reply to a query during media briefing at PHQ Jammu, GOC Sahi while addressing the media yesterday had stated that the slain trio had plans to carry out a big strike on the Srinagar-Baramulla highway a
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir’s Director General of Police (DGP), Dilbagh Singh Thursday upheld army’s claim that three militants were killed in Wednesday’s gunfight on Srinagar outskirts, but added that police will still investigate the claims by the families of the slain trio over their “innocence”.
“I have no reason to dispute what the GoC Kilo Force (H S Sahi) has stated about the Lawaypora encounter. The families of two slain youth claimed that their children had gone to submit forms at a University, I want to ask them what were their children doing at encounter site if they had gone to submit a form?” DGP Singh said in reply to a query during a press conference at Jammu today.
SRINAGAR: None of the three youth who were killed at Lawaypora area of Srinagar outskirts on Wednesday had any case or FIR against them in their respective police stations neither was any missing report filed about them in South Kashmir’s Pulwama or Shopian districts.
Army personnel stand guard near the encounter site at Hokersar area of Lawaypora in Srinagar city on Wednesday, December 30, 2020.KL Image by Bilal Bahadur
Quoting a police official news agency KNO reported that in Rajpora police station, there is no militancy-related case against the two youth killed in Lawaypora encounter Aijaz Maqbool Ganai, 20, and Athar Mushtaq Wani, 19. “There was no missing complaint lodged in Rajpora police station about the duo,” the official said.