#FakeEncounter Archives

Army Captain’s Life Term Suspended in South Kashmir Fake Encounter Case, Granted Conditional Bail

November 15, 2023November 15, 2023 Editor

The armed forces tribunal here has suspended the life sentence of an Army captain who was found guilty of killing three men in a “staged” encounter in south Kashmir’s Amshipora village in July 2020. The tribunal also granted conditional bail to Captain Bhoopendra Singh and directed him to appear before its principal registrar at a regular interval starting from January next year. The three men hailing from Rajouri district of Jammu region — Imtiyaz Ahmed, Abrar Ahmed and Mohammed Ibrar — were killed in a remote hilly village in Shopian…

Srinagar Encounter: Slain youth’s kin stage protest, demand bodies, and a fair probe, Omar, Mufti advocates claim

January 5, 2021January 5, 2021 Editor

The families of two of three youths who were killed in an encounter with security forces on December 30 protested in Srinagar on Monday demanding their bodies and impartial investigation into the matter. While the army and police have maintained that they were militants, the youths’ families have vouched for their innocence. The police also released purported videos of the cordoned house where the trio – Zubair Ahmad of Turkawangam, Shopian; Ajaz Maqbool and Athar Mushtaq of Putrigam, Pulwama – was killed in Hokersar-Lawaypora, Srinagar. The security forced had claimed…