SHRC directs police chief to submit report in killing of Pulwama civilian

The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) on Tuesday directed state police chief Shesh Paul Vaid to submit compliance report into the killing of a civilian in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.

The petition filed by International Forum for Justice and Human Rights, Ahsan Untoo, has stated: “that the orders issued by the Home ministry regarding the Ramazan Ceasefire has been voluntarily violated by the 50RR and caused the death of the civilian without any reasonable justification”.

   

The petitioner has prayed before the commission to constitute a team who would investigate this killing, and furnish the report before it within a period of 15 days.

According to police, a civilian identified as Bilal Ahmad Ganie- sumo driver by profession–son of Muhammad Ramzan Ganie of Narwa Pulwama was killed in an exchange of fire between militants and army at Kakapora village of Pulwama on Sunday.

According to police, Bilal died when an exchange of fire took place between militants and army.

The militants, as per police, were driven by Bilal to the army’s 50 RR camp in Kakapora. The army later followed the militants in their vehicles and about a kilometer from the camp site exchanged gunfire with the militants. In the incident, an army man was injured, who later succumbed to his injuries, and Bilal was killed on the spot in the exchange of fire.

The family in its version had stated that Bilal had broken his fast and left with his brother Mehraj-ud-din in his sumo vehicle for their poultry farm located at Dogam village.

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