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Slain Kashmir youth was militant, reiterates
army
Thursday July 26, 2012 02:50:54 PM,
IANS
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Protests in Kashmir over youth's killing
Carrying
the body of a youth who was allegedly killed in firing by security
forces, thousands of people walked in protest in Jammu and
Kashmir's Bandipora area Wednesday. Shouting anti-government and
pro-Islamic slogans, about 4,000 protestors carrying the body of a
local village
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Srinagar: The young
man killed in a Kashmir village two days ago was a militant from
whom a weapon was recovered, a senior army officer said Thursday
while his family maintained that he was innocent and shot dead
while coming out of a mosque.
Referring to the killing of 19-year-old Hilal Ahmad Dar of
Bandipora district's Aloosa village Tuesday evening, Lt. Gen. Om
Prakash, General Officer Commanding (GOC) Srinagar-based 15th
Corps, said: "The Indian Army is a highly disciplined force. In
order to avoid civilian damage, for the last many years our
operations are based on intelligence inputs."
Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function, he said that
it was based on such intelligence reports of militants moving in
the area that ambush was laid.
"...When a group of militants approached the ambush, they were
challenged to surrender, upon which they opened fire on the
troops. One person was killed in the encounter from whose
possession a weapon has also been recovered".
Asked whether the army would initiate an inquiry, he said: "We do
not need to prove anything. It was a group of militants."
On Wednesday, spontaneous protests broke out in the area after
Hilal's body was handed over to relatives for burial. About 24
villagers were injured in clashes with the police in Bandipora
town when protestors carrying his body shouted anti-government
slogans and pelted stones at security forces.
Villagers and the family said Hilal was innocent and was killed
after the Ramzan evening 'Tarawi' prayers.
The Bandipora district magistrate has ordered a magisterial probe
into the youth's killing.
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