In December 2013, the Army had indicted Col. D.K. Pathania, Major Upinder, Subedar Satbir, Hawaldar Bir Singh, sepoys Chandra Bhan, Nagendra Singh and Narendra Singh in the fake encounter case and ordered their court martial. Investigations carried out by the Army and J&K police separately and spread over three years confirmed that Major Upinder of 4 Rajput Battalion and others had entered into a criminal conspiracy with Abbas Hussein, a resident of Kamalkote village in Uri area near the de facto border and a soldier of 161 Battalion of Territorial Army, and lured three youth Shehzad Ahmed, Muhammad Shaffi and Reyaz Ahmed of Nadihal village of Baramulla district to Machael on the promise that they would be provided with jobs in the Army.
But the trio was instead shot dead in cold blood and subsequently dubbed as infiltrating foreign terrorists apparently with an eye on rewards and out of turn promotions. A special police officer Bashir Ahmed Lone, his brother Abdul Qayyum and two other civilians Fayaz Ahmed Ikhwani and Abdul Hamid Butt are also involved in the crime
The accused Army officials have since been attached. The Army’s action comes after its “court of inquiry” into the incident submitted its final report in November 2013. The “court of inquiry” was led by then commander of 68 Mountain Brigade, Brigadier G.S. Sangah, now a major-general, which found the accused guilty of the crime.
via The Asian Age
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