Rights Commission Terms Killing Of Kashmir Teen By Police As Gross Violation =>The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) today took suo moto cognisance of the killing of a youth in police action at Naidkhai village in Bandipora district and termed the incident as “gross human rights violation” by the men in uniform. “The force has again failed to restrain from use of excessive force while controlling mobs,” the Commission observed while directing the Director General of Police (DGP), the Commandant of the Indian Reserve Police (IRP) unit deputed at Naidkhai village and the Deputy Commissioner, Bandipora, to file a factual report about the incident on or before April 7, the next date of hearing. Farhat Ahmad Dar, a resident of Shahgund village, was killed after the police fired on the protesting youth at Naidkhai village yesterday. The locals had alleged that Farhat was fired upon by the personnel of the 8th Battalion of the Indian Reserve Police, a subsidiary of the J&K Police, guarding the residence of Minister for Higher Education Mohammad Akbar Lone. The police had said the youth died in a retaliatory fire to disperse a mob that tried to set ablaze a security vehicle. “If the news reports, as appeared in almost all the newspapers of the Kashmir valley, are true, then this is gross violation of human rights,” a single bench of the SHRC, comprising acting chairman Rafiq Fida, observed in its orders. “If the statement of Dr Masrat (Deputy Medical Superintendent of the District Hospital at Baramulla) is to be believed, the police have miserably failed to adhere to the standard operational procedure (SOP) and have resorted to fire directly at the vital parts of the mob,” the Commission added. Dr Masarat had told The Tribune that the victim had a fire arm injury on the left side of the chest. The SHRC also observed that the police should have used non lethal methods or fired in air or used force in such a manner that no human life was lost. “From the news reports, it appears that no such method, restrain or strict adherence to the SOP was a choice for the erring police personnel who have allegedly pointed their guns and fired directly at the chests of the participants of the mob,” the Commission stated.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 07:40:02 +0000
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