_____Re-investigate Kunan-Poshpora mass rape, Kashmir court tells police____ A court in Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday asked the police to reinvestigate the alleged mass rape of women in north Kashmir’s Kunan-Poshpora villages. Judicial Magistrate Kupwara J A Geelani, while dismissing the conclusions made by the police in the recently filed closure report in the case of Kunan-Poshpora mass rape of 23-24 February 1991 returned the case file. He asked police for “further investigation to unravel the identity of those who happen to be perpetrators”. “As the demand by us and the survivors was for the re-investigation by Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by an officer of Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) rank,” the court ordered while mentioning the lack of authority in ordering SIT. Jeelani asked further investigation to be conducted by an officer not below the rank of SSP and within a time bound period of 3 months. On 10 June 2013, a protest petition was filed by lawyer Parvez Imroz on behalf of the victims of Kunan-Poshpora mass rape against the closure report of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, before the Judicial Magistrate, Kupwara. On 13 June 2013, the Chief Prosecuting Officer [CPO] filed objections, and today, oral arguments were made before the Magistrate. The protest petition argued that the police investigations were incomplete and clearly “mala fide as despite having the information on file regarding the involvement of 125 personnel of 4th Rajputana Rifles, the police had not questioned them and neither was an identification parade conducted”. “The Judicial Magistrate while acknowledging the submissions made by us has mentioned in the judgment that, until date the investigating agency has not unveiled the identity of the culprits despite having a clear cut nominal role of 125 suspects,” Imroz said. Like our official news page facebook/jknn.news
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:16:47 +0000
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