Srinagar, Jan 26: Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control and the world over observed India’s Republic Day, the 26th January, as Black Day, and massaged to the world to take notice of India’s continued denial of right to self-determination to the Kashmiripeople. Emphasize on their demand for freedom and plebiscite as the only peaceful and pragmatic solution of the 74 years old international political dispute. It should be understood and underscored that hundreds of political leaders, workers and youth and members of the civil society of Kashmir are in jails outside the IIOJK facing fake and fabricated cases before the special courts or life sentences till death, the report said.
India had forcibly seized Jammu and Kashmir in 1947 with its military might and since then more than six lakh Kashmiris had been mercilessly killed by the occupational forces. India and its occupation forces have let lose a reign of terror and turned illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir into a big jail and are trying to impose graveyard silence and pushing people to wall
There is no word from the Indian authorities in IIOJK to resume hearing of over 500 cases of human rights violations which were pending before the Human Rights Commission before it was closed after the revocation of Kashmir’s special status.
Muhammad Ahsan Untoo a human rights activist in Srinagar said that following the revocation of Article 370 in August 2019, New Delhi closed the Commission that was largely seen in line with the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s, policy to deal tough with the Kashmiris.
“Even as New Delhi has extended the reach of the ‘National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)’ to Jammu and Kashmir, the body doesn’t hold regular hearings and the lack of bench in Kashmir was making it difficult for them to reach out to it.” He said, “NHRC routinely dismisses pleas. People can’t go to Delhi to follow up the cases.”
The lack of human rights bodies in Kashmir has come at a time when the Indian forces have been accused of serious human rights violations.
A police inquiry recently revealed that three youth of Rajouri were killed in a fake encouter in ShopiaN IN IIOJK by Indian army personnel in a staged gun battle and it is clear Modi government has imposed a martial law like situation in IIOJK
the Indian Army Captain involved in the fake encounter in Shopian district last July had attempted to destroy the evidence, the police charge sheet filed in the case says.
Captain Bhoopendra Singh had also provided wrong information to the police about the recovery made during the staged encounter, the charge sheet filed by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police before the chief judicial magistrate, Shopian, said.
The case relates to the July 18, 2020 encounter in Shopian’s Amshipura in which three youths were killed and dubbed as militants. Later, the Army a Court of Inquiry after reports appeared on social media proved that the three youth were innocent.
“No leads regarding the source of illegal weapons as illegally arranged by accused” for planting on the bodies were provided, the charge sheet said.