South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

Srinagar, July 25,2011: An Indian Army trooper who attempted to molest a girl student in Hyderbeg in Patan area of Baramulla district this morning has been held for questioning, sources told Kashmir Dispatch. 

Eyewitnesses said a girl student of Yatipora village of Pattan in Baramulla district was on way to her school when an Army man intercepted her near Hyderbeg and tried to molest her. The girl, eyewitnesses said raised an alarm before escaping from the clutches of the trooper.

Srinagar, July 10, 2011: Two teenage boys were killed and two others including a minor girl were injured seriously when a shell that was collected from the gun-battle site in south Kashmir's Pulwama exploded inside their house. The deceased have been identified as Obaid Yusuf Lone, 13 and Adil Ahamd Teli, 17, both hailing from Hajan village in Rajpora where a fierce gun-battle had raged between government forces and militants of Friday evening. Sources said the boys had found the live shell near the gun-battle site in the afternoon and had brought it home.

Srinagar, July 9 2011: A non-governmental organization, Youth Empowerment Services of Kashmir (YES-Kashmir), has demanded the reinvestigation of a decade-old encounter in Islamabad district in which three civilians were killed by Indian troops. Stating that the fake encounters were becoming a trend in Kashmir, Youth Empowerment Services of Kashmir (YES-Kashmir), a non-governmental organization today demanded the reinvestigation of a decade-old encounter in south Kashmir’s Islamabad district in which three civilians were killed.

Srinagar, June 20, 2011: In Srinagar, the Human Rights Commission has asked police to submit the investigation report about the killing of a 70-year-old beggar, Habib Ullah Khan, of Diver Vilgam, Lolab who was shot dead by Indian army personnel in a fake encounter in Kupwara on April 14, 2010.

Quoting police and CID reports, Rights Commission member, Javaid Kawoosa in his judgment has held that 70-year-old beggar hailing from Vilgam, Lolab in Kupwara district was killed by Indian army men on April 14, 2010 and later labeled as a foreign militant.

Srinagar, June 19: Ashiq Hussain (10) who had to pay a heavy price due to the unresolved Kashmir dispute has lost both hands and an eye in a landmine blast planted by Indian army near his home in Khardi Karmara village about 6 km from Poonch near the LoC and he may go completely blind as the second eye is also seriously injured.

Indian Army killed a civilian in custody: Human rights commission
Saturday, 18 June 2011: In Srinagar, the Human Rights Commission has indicted Indian Army for the custodial killing of a civilian and later claiming him as a militant in Handwara tehsil of the Kupwara district seventeen years ago.

In a Judgement passed on March, 7, 2011,Chairperson of the commission, Justice (Retd) M Y Kawoosa observed “Troopers of 14th Punjab Dogra Regiment took Surya Chichi for interrogation where he died in custody due to torture on 8th August, 1994.”

Srinagar, June 9, 2011: Callousness can be limitless. Nearly a year after the teenager Umar Qayoom of Soura in Srinagar who was killed in custody while the police have yet to register an FIR in the case. Abdul Qayoom Bhat—father of the deceased—said police have been insisting on exhumation of his son’s body for postmortem “but they are refusing to file FIR.”

Srinagar, June 9, 2011 : The residents of Singhpora in Pattan area of  Baramulla district has threatened mass migration if the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) lays its hands on thousands kanals of  their agricultural land.

Srinagar, June 02, 2011: Unidentified Indian Army personnel entered three hotels in the dead of the night in Leh and harassed local and foreign tourists, without any reason.
Daily news papers in Srinagar aid that the incident took place during the intervening night of May 30 and 31 when the troopers of 3 Division deployed at Kharu in Leh area of Ladakh region barged into Hotel Masarovar, Holiday Inn and Keddar Guest House. “The troops were carrying weapons and wearing uniforms, questioned the tourists,” it added.

Doda, May 29, 2011: A 24-year girl student committed suicide by jumping into Chenab in Pul Doda area on Sunday after she was harassed by a Police official. The deceased was a B.Ed student of Islamia Education and Research Institute Kishtwar. Rahida Banoo daughter of Abdul Rafiq Rather resident of Bhalessa reportedly jumped into river Chenab near Pul Doda after a Police official harassed her, while she was in a tea stall along with his college friend.