J&Ok L-G Manoj Sinha mentioned Thursday that he’s “looking into the facts” associated to the alleged gunfight on the outskirts of Srinagar metropolis late final month by which safety forces killed three youths who, they claimed, have been “militants”.
“I wish to say this with all duty that if something is discovered suspicious within the matter, I’ll positively get it probed,’’ Sinha mentioned. He was responding to questions from reporters throughout an interplay to announce a scheme to spice up trade within the Union Territory with an outlay of Rs 28,400 crore.
The L-G’s feedback come days after the households of the three youths killed in Lawaypora within the early hours of December 30 alleged that the incident was a “staged gunfight” and that their kids have been harmless.
The incident occurred 4 days after J&Ok Police filed a chargesheet towards an Army officer and two civilians over the killing of three labourers from Rajouri in one other “encounter” at Shopian in July.
Sinha, nevertheless, mentioned the administration must “maintain a fine balance” to make sure that “the morale of security forces” will not be lowered since “Jammu and Kashmir is a sensitive Union Territory”. “All the main points have come to me and I’m trying into them. You will get an applicable reply on the applicable time,’’ he mentioned.
According to police, the three youths — Zubair Ahmad Lone (20) of Turkwangam in Shopian, and Athar Mushtaq (16) and Ajaz Maqbool (22) of Pulwama — have been killed in an operation launched by the Army based mostly on inputs.
The households, nevertheless, mentioned the youths had gone to Srinagar for some work. While Zubair’s two brothers are working in J-Ok Police, Ajaz was the son of a policeman.
“My brother was home that day (December 29) till 2 pm. How could he become a militant within two hours (when the alleged gunfight started)? There was no record with any security agency against him. We want a probe. There was a similar incident in Shopian. There also they claimed to have recovered weapons from the dead militants. But they, too, turned out to be civilians,” mentioned Mohammad Shafi Lone, brother of Zubair.
The households have additionally demanded the return of the our bodies of the youths. “I want justice. I don’t need money. I only want the body of my son. He was only 16,” mentioned Mushtaq Ahmad, father of Athar Mushtaq.
On January 4, J-Ok Police launched two movies on Twitter that purportedly confirmed troopers making bulletins and asking the three youths “to surrender”. However, whereas GoC (Kilo Force) H S Sahi mentioned that when given the choice to “surrender, the militants opened fire”, the movies don’t embrace the sound of any bullet being fired or another response.
Replying to a different query about restoration of 4G cell information companies in J&Ok, Sinha mentioned {that a} courtroom committee is inspecting the problem. “Hopefully, there will be good news soon in the coming days,” he mentioned.
