Army creates a new Major General-led human rights cell for transparency and probity
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The 13-lakh strong Army has created a new human rights cell headed by a Major-General for “greater transparency and probity” in its functioning in disturbed areas like Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast. Major General Gautam Chauhan, who was commissioned into the Gorkha Rifles, took charge as the first additional director general (human rights) and will report to Army vice-chief.
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The appointment of the ADG (HR) comes soon after the J&K Police last week charge-sheeted an Army officer (Captain Bhoopendra Singh) and two civilians for the alleged abduction and murder of three youths in Rajouri in July 2020.
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NEW DELHI: The 13-lakh strong Army has created a new human rights cell headed by a Major-General for “greater transparency and probity” in its functioning in disturbed areas like Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast.
Major General Gautam Chauhan, who was commissioned into the Gorkha Rifles, has taken charge as the first additional director general (human rights) at the Army headquarters in New Delhi. He will report directly to the Army vice-chief, with his branch being the nodal point to examine all human rights violation reports.
The appointment of the ADG (HR) comes soon after the J&K Police last week charge-sheeted an Army officer (Captain Bhoopendra Singh) and two civilians for the alleged abduction and murder of three youths in Rajouri in July 2020.
Families of three youth killed in encounter in Kashmir claim they were civilians
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The relatives and neighbors of slain youth protested outside the Police Control Room here in Srinagar, where bodies of the trio were brought for medico-legal formalities before transporting them to the graveyard in Ganderbal district of central Kashmir, which is over 120 kms from their hometowns in southern Kashmir.
SRINAGAR: Family members of three youth killed in an encounter in HMT area on the outskirts of Srinagar on Wednesday claimed that they were civilians, present in their homes until December 29.
They alleged that the trio was killed in a staged encounter, which started in the HMT area near Srinagar-Bramullah highway on the afternoon of December 29. The three youth killed in the encounter were identified them as Zubair Ahmad Lone, I his early 20’s from Turkawangam area of Shopian, Ajaz Maqbool Ganai, in his early 20’s of Putrigam and Athar Mushtaq, a teenager,
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