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| Did surrendered militants receive money to file PIL against Army Chief? | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 22: The Army Report which has sparked political storm across the country has revealed that a very little known NGO, 'Yes Kashmir' comprising a few surrendered militants of South Kashmir filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in October 2011 in the J&K High Court alleging that the current Army Chief, Gen Bikram Singh, who was then a brigadier commanding a Rashtriya Rifles sector in South Kashmir, was responsible for a fake encounter in March 2001.
Early Times has learned through reliable sources that NGO, 'Yes Kashmir' was founded by a surrendered militant of J&K Liberation Front, Khurshid Ahmad Mir of Anantnag district in 2010.
The information collected from various official and unofficial sources suggest that Mir founded the NGO in 2010 and its registration was completed in just one month.
The Trustees of the NGO include Tanvir Ahmad Wani, Sheikh Manzoor Ahmad, Ashiq Husain Najar, Iftikhar Ahmad Dar and Fayaz Ahmad Mir.
According to the information, this group of surrendered militants established an office in Bus Stand Achabal in 2010 and soon shifted to Rajbagh in Srinagar.
In the meantime the NGO filed a PIL in the J&K High Court alleging that the present Army Chief, General Bikram Singh was involved in a fake encounter of a beggar hailing from Lolab area in North Kashmir's Kupwara District in 2001.
The army report on misuse of funds by the former army chief, VK Singh reveals that funds were being diverted to the NGO to scuttle the elevation of General Bikram Singh as Chief of the Indian Army. A newspaper report also claims that officers have testified that General Singh used army money to fund the NGO that tried to legally block Bikram Singh from succeeding him as army chief.
Some reports even suggest that one Haqeeqat Singh was acting as conduit between the then Army Chief General VK Singh and the 'Yes Kashmir' trustees and transaction was taking place through him only.
Interestingly, the NGO, "Yes Kashmir" closed the office at Rajbagh in Srinagar only a few days before the army report naming it as the beneficiary of the secret funds of the Army Intelligence Unit created by the former chief of the army staff. Khurshid Ahmad Mir is reportedly running a Fish Culture Unit at Kookernag. Sources said that a case of bank robbery against Mir is still pending in a court of law.
Meanwhile, sources told Early Times that the CID Wing of the J&K Police was now verifying the credentials of yet another NGO run by person from South Kashmir's Devsar area who is very active.
Pertinently General VK Singh has been accused of misusing funds from a secret military intelligence cell that he had created. The controversial cell had been accused of spying on the government.
An Army report on that secret cell has been received by the Defence Ministry.
The ministry, sources said, prefers an internal mechanism to deal with the matter than to order a CBI inquiry taking into account the sensitivity involved with the issue.
It may be recalled that the report has also revealed that the State Agriculture Minister, Ghulam Hasan Mir received Rs. 1.19 crore from the secret fund of the Intelligence Unit created by Singh to destabilize Omar Abdullah Government in the State. However, Mir has refuted the allegations saying that the charge that he took money to destabilize the Omar Abdullah government is patently wrong. "I encouraged the CM during 2010 street violence to not get bogged down by the spreading violence across the Valley. The CM knows that I've always stood for stabilizing his government," Mir said. |
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