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| 97 pc cases against troops in J&K found false: BGS Verma | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 20: Brigadier general staff (BGS), northern command, Sanjay Verma today said 97 per cent of the cases against army personnel in Jammu and Kashmir were found false and baseless.
Over 100 armymen, including 48 officers, had faced punitive action in cases related to human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir over the last two decades, he told media.
The BGS said as many as 1,514 FIRs were registered against army personnel for the alleged human rights violations in the last 20 years of militancy in the state.
He said out of these, 1,508 cases had been investigated while probe was continuing in the remaining six cases. "As many as 1,473 complaints, nearly 97 per cent of the cases, were found false and baseless," he asserted.
However, 35 cases (2.3 per cent of the total cases) were found true, he said, adding that 104 armymen, including 48 officers, had been punished for human rights violations in J&K. "Our accountability is very strong. Our investigation and punishment in cases related to alleged human rights violations is very fast," the BGS said, underscoring that there "is no room for mistakes."
Army had alway maintained zero-tolerance to human rights violations, he added.
Army officials maintained that they were following certain strict edicts, including presence of police representative during operations and immediate handing over of detainees to police, while conducting counter-terrorism operations under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).
Army ensures that a police representative is present as part of the operational team though an exception could be made in remote areas where the strength of police force may not be sufficient to be deployed in more than one operation going on simultaneously, they said.
All operations are conducted as joint operations with police, they said and added that recoveries made, detainees and bodies of those killed were immediately handed over to local police. "No unilateral arrests or searches are made. All actions are based on hard
actionable intelligence," they said, adding that army had discontinued crowd control measures and had left the task to the state police."No women are searched until women police personnel are present during the operation," they said. |
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