Omar’s announcement was seen as an attempt to reclaim the lost ground following the public outrage over security forces’ excesses during the 2010 carnage in the region. The Commission was announced after four civilians were killed by CRPF personnel in the Gagran area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district in September 2013 while renowned music conductor Zubin Mehta was performing in the famed Mughal Gardens of the Srinagar city. In 2014, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah announced the CoI (Commission of Inquiry) ahead of the assembly elections in November and December of that year.
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In the past, we had seen inquiry reports indicting forces, but they were never not acted upon,” Habeel Iqbal, a Kashmir-based lawyer, said. The forces enjoy impunity under various laws. “These inquiries do not inspire much public confidence because of the track record of the state here. Seven inquiries in 2017 and eight inquiries in 2018 were ordered.Īlso read: Why Kashmir’s Millennials Are Risking Their Lives to Save Militants The coalition government of the Peoples Democratic Party and Bharatiya Janata Party led by Mehbooba Mufti ordered eight probes. Protesters throw stones towards police during a protest against the killing of Burhan Wani, a separatist militant leader, in Srinagar, July 10, 2016. Over a hundred civilians were killed mostly in south Kashmir when the police and paramilitary forces used force to quell the protests. In 2016, Kashmir witnessed another massive public unrest after the killing of popular militant commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani. Starting from 11 inquires in 2011, eight in 2012, seven each in 20, 10 inquires in 2015 were ordered by the government. The government ordered at least 14 magisterial probes, constituted special investigation teams of police to probe the various incidents of killings and firing incidents.
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The local police and Indian paramilitary forces used tear gas, rubber bullets and fired live bullets killing 112 people, including numerous teenagers and a 11-year-old kid. According to eyewitnesses, a territorial army soldier, a counter-insurgent and a former special police officer took three young men from Nadihal village in the Baramulla district and killed them. In 2010, protests were witnessed in Kashmir for around four months, after the Indian Army claimed to have killed three “Pakistani infiltrators” in a “staged encounter” at Sona Pindi. However, no one had been convicted, Untoo said. The government ordered eight magisterial inquiries. Over 50 people were killed in various incidents of firing and tear smoke shelling by the local police and paramilitary forces. This sparked a debate with protesters in the Kashmir Valley opposing the land transfer, and protests in the Jammu region in support. On May 26, 2008, the Indian government and the state administration of Jammu and Kashmir agreed to give 99 acres (0.40 sq km) of forest land in the Kashmir Valley to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) to build temporary shelters and facilities for Hindu pilgrims. In 2016, a coalition of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party and Bharatiya Janata Party ruled Jammu and Kashmir. The erstwhile state was ruled by a coalition of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference and Congress in 2010.
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In 2008, Kashmir was ruled by a coalition of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party and Congress. The Kashmir region witnessed three public unrests in 2008, 20.
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“The Commission in its response said that over 500 magisterial inquiries have been ordered, of which only one inquiry was completed and the report was never submitted,” Muhammad Ahsan Untoo, the chairman of the Forum said. However, there has not been any conviction following these probes.Īlso read: J&K LG Orders Magisterial Probe Into Hyderpora ‘Encounter’Īnother local human rights group, International Forum for Justice and Human Rights filed a petition before the State Human Rights Commission in 2018 seeking details about magisterial inquiries ordered since 1990. Since 2008, various governments and administrations have ordered 108 such inquiries into various incidents of violence in the Valley, including custodial killings, beatings, rape and molestation, ransacking of houses, harassments, human shields, pellet injuries and fake encounters, a representative of Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, a local human rights group, said. Hundreds of magisterial and SIT (special investigation team) inquiries have been conducted in Jammu and Kashmir for the past three decades, but the reports of a majority of them have never been made public. Srinagar: Even as the Jammu and Kashmir administration has ordered a magisterial inquiry into a recent “shootout” that led to the killings of three civilians and a militant, legal experts in the Valley believe that such magisterial inquiries are turning out to be a farce.