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ET REPORTER
Jammu, July 22: As the cases of those missing in custody pile up in hundreds with their no whereabouts even decades after disappearance, the two elite Central Paramilitary Forces have been found lying about two alleged militants who they picked up 15 years back but they never returned ever after.
Two alleged militants belonging to Students Liberation Front were picked up be security forces in March 23 after a brief encounter. Now the BSF and the CRPF are throwing the ball in each other's court as who picked and what happened to them after their arrest.
As a case has been filed by the father of one of the militants in Court; in their replies the BSF and CRPF have made glaring contradictions about sequence of events.
According to BSF, its sleuths arrested on intervening night of March 23, 24, 1992, eight militants including the persons in question Javed Ahmad Shawl alias Shalla and Mohammad Siddique Sofi, and recovered a huge quantity of arms and ammunition from them during an operation in Bemina.
Replying to a petition filed by Ghulam Nabi Shawl, the father of Javed, who approached the court after failing to trace his son, the BSF said Shalla and Sofi were handed over to A Anandan, Deputy Superintendent of Police of CRPF on March 24, 1992 oe request of the CRPF against a proper receipt.
However, in its reply the CRPF said Shalla and Sofi were involved in an attack on security forces at Potalibagh in Budgam district on March 24, 1992.
An incident of firing happened on that day at 1830 hours at Potalibagh. Neither any militant nor any of its personnel were killed in the incident but three force personnel sustained injuries, the CRPF said.
It said a complaint was lodged in Budgan police station according to which arms and ammunition were recovered and Shalla and Sofi were involved in the attack.
However, the CRPF, in its reply, did not mention whether the FIR was lodged by it or BSF and the site of the recoveries.
The BSF maintains it had no knowledge about what happento Shalla and Sofi as they were not returned to the Force by the CRPF.
The BSF also submitted before the court that it had not lodged any report with Budgam police station regarding the escape of Shalla and Sofi as they had already been handed over to CRPF.
It said it had seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition from the underground hideout of Shalla and Sofi at Bemina. The cache included two dozen assorted rifles, three dozen grenades and large number of mines, pistols, detonators and remote control devices.
The BSF also opposed the grant of any compensation or ex-gratia relief to the petitioner, saying Shalla and Sofi were anti-national elements.
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