Policemans brother tortured by Army in Sopore Srinagar, May 13: An army officer in North Kashmir’s Sopore town allegedly has let loose a reign of terror and has become a nuisance for the residents, a news agency reported on Tuesday. The report said The 22 Rashtriya Rifles camp located in Pazlipora area of the town, some 55 kms from here, has allegedly become a continuous source of nuisance for the locals. According to the locals Army’s Major Abishiek has let loose, a reign of terror in the area and is ordering the youth to report on the camp where they are being interrogated and tortured, the report told CNS. People in Nazwari Shiva of the town staged a protest against the Major on Tuesday after he allegedly called a local youth Mudasir Hassan Reshi to the camp and tortured him. The youth, a graduate students at a government college, according to reports was later on admitted in sub-district hospital under MRD number 34413. “Army personnel from 22 RR came to our house and directed us to send Mudasir to the camp located at Pazlipora. I along with my other family members accompanied Mudasir and reported at the camp where he was detained and we all were directed to return to the home with an assurance that after brief questioning he will be released,” Mudasir’s brother, Imatiyaz Ahmed Reshi, who works in Jammu and Kashmir police said. He said that after an hour, “we received a phone call from Major Abhishiekh who asked us to take Mudasir back to his home. We were relieved after receiving the call but our joy was short lived as we found Mudasir in a pool of blood. He was lying on the ground of the camp, unable to walk and talk, blood was oozing out from his nose and ears and there were torture marks on his body,” Imtiyaz said. “We shifted Mudasir to sub district hospital where he narrated to the doctors that army severely thrashed him, hit him with gun butts and he was forced to take garlic-water,” his brother said, adding that army interrogated his brother on the charges of stone-pelting. Mudasir’s uncle said it is the job of police to detain any stone-hurler. “We fail to understand why army is meddling into the administrative and police affairs and which law permits them to direct youth to report at their camps and interrogate them physically and mentally,” he questioned. The locals alleged that it has become a routine for the Major to force youth to report at his camp where he interrogates them at will. “We request top Army brass to get this officer shifted from the camp or put a curb on his ‘unlawful’ activities,” they said. Defence spokesperson based in Srinagar NN Joshi said that the incident is baseless and concocted. “No army officer of ours called any youth to the camp and there is no truth in the story,” he said. (CNS) The Daily Kashmir Glory
Posted on: Tue, 13 May 2014 13:21:31 +0000
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