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| Court allows army to file objections to IGP's petition | | Pathribal encounter | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 29: Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Srinagar has permitted army to file objections by April 16 to an application moved by Inspector General of Police Kashmir Range, seeking documents pertaining to the closure of 2000 Pathribal encounter.
Besides order copy of Commanding Officer, the IGP has sought record of evidence on the basis of which decision was passed by the Court Martial, declaring the infamous encounter as joint operation of army and police. Five civilians were killed in the encounter on March 26, 2000 at Pathribal in South Kashmir with the victims being branded by Army as foreign militants. Nearly 14 years after the fake encounter rocked the state; the Army in January this year closed the case, saying the evidence recorded could not establish prima facie charges against any of its accused five personnel. The case was handed over to the CBI for investigation in January, 2003. The CBI in its chargesheet concluded that officials and jawans of the Seven Rashtriya Rifles -- Brig Ajay Saxena, Lt Col Brahendra Pratap Singh, Maj Saurabh Sharma, Maj Amit Saxena and Subedar Idrees Khan had staged a fake encounter and killed five innocent civilians whom they said were terrorists involved in the massacre of 35 Sikhs at Chittisinghpora in south Kashmir on March 20, 2000. |
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