‘3 militants’ killed in encounter in Lawaypora KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 12/31/2020 12:57:36 PM
Families allege the men were innocent, “pick-up”and killed
SRINAGAR, Dec 30: Four days after the J&K Police indicted an Army Captain and two of his “local informers” in a detailed charge-sheet for a fake encounter of three labourers in Shopian in July last, families of “three militants killed in an encounter” on the outskirts of Srinagar today have alleged that their sons were innocent.
Security forces on Wednesday claimed three local militants were killed in an encounter at Lawaypora on the outskirts of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir.
SRINAGAR: The family members of Aijaz Ahmad Ganai, a slain youth from Putrigam Pulwama on Thursday requested Jammu and Kashmir government to hand over his body for its burial in their ancestral graveyard.
“That the applicants are the maternal uncle and grandfather of the deceased and through the medium of this application wants to draw your kind attention, that the deceased was doing the graduation in Degree College Pulwama in arts subjects and in this regard has told the family members that he has some work at Pulwama on 29-12-2020,” the letter reads.
“That on 3 pm on the same date, the said deceased has called his sister namely Asiya Jan on the phone that his work is incomplete and afterwords on 30-12-2020 at 9:00 SHO Rajpora has called the father of the deceased Mohd Maqbool Ganie and enquired about the deceased, in turn, the father of the deceased called back the SHO concerned and send the photograph of his son through WhatsApp. The SHO Rajpora in reply told the father of
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Srinagar: Families of three youth police said were militants killed in a gunfight with government forces at Lawaypora in Srinagar outskirts on Wednesday morning, staged a protest asserting that they were innocent.
“Yesterday at 10 a.m., he had tea with me and I swear about it. I don’t know where he was brought down from Sumo. Is this what is going to happen in Kashmir. Is this democracy? Is this the governor Raj? Kill me. Why you killed him. He was a student,” said Bashir Ahmad Ganie, grandfather of Aijaz Maqbool, one of the slain.
“Why was he killed? Was he a terrorist?” he asked.