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| Girl’s abduction triggers anger | | Case registered against army for killing civilian | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Apr 4
A week after the abduction of a girl in Kupwara allegedly by by Army men and disappearance of her father in custody, the incident has triggered anger among the people here.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the family members of the girl said that she and her father were still untraceable since their abduction by Territorial Army of 160-Battalion (Hirri camp) at Batpora in Kupwara town on the intervening night of 27 and 28 March.
The residents of Kupwara’s Batpora village told mediamen that the troopers of 160 Territorial Army of Herri Camp last week barged into the house of Ali Akbar and took away Akbar’s daughter forcibly. Akbar who rushed out of his house trying to rescue his daughter is missing in troops custody since then. “The girl is in Hirri camp of the TA Unit and commanding officer 160-battalion is shielding the personnel and ordering soldiers to abduct poor village girls,” said Qadir Khan, a relative of the abducted girl.
A social activist of the area Haji Showkat Hussain said, “the Indian Army officials asked us to compromise. To what extent it was genuine and how army can keep our daughter in the camp?”
Meanwhile, the local police have registered a case of murder against the Indian Army officers and personnel who deliberately shot dead a civilian Gama Bakerwal, which sparked off a protest strike in Tral.
Civilians and Jammu and Kashmir police officials said that one Gamia Bakerwal, mentally unstable, was shot dead by troops without any rhyme and reason when the victim was returning from a mosque after offering prayers. |
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