Hyderpora encounter: LG orders magisterial probe

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has ordered a magisterial probe into Monday’s controversial encounter in Hyderpora space of Srinagar. 4 individuals, together with a Pakistani militant, have been killed within the incident.

Lieutenant governor Sinha stated in Srinagar on Thursday that a further district Justice of the Peace stage officer would head the inquiry and the administration would take appropriate motion as quickly because the report is submitted in a time-bound method.

“J&Ok administration reiterates its dedication of defending lives of harmless civilians and it’ll make sure that there is no such thing as a injustice,” the workplace of the J&Ok LG tweeted. Later within the night, the administration exhumed our bodies of Altaf Ahmed Bhat and Mudasir Gul from a graveyard in Handwara space of northern Kashmir. The our bodies can be handed over to the households. The officers have requested the households to conduct the funeral within the presence of a restricted gathering. Restrictions have been imposed and contingents of police and paramilitary forces have been deployed across the residences of the 2 victims to make sure there is no such thing as a mass protest.

Factions of Hurriyat Convention led by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, below home arrest, and Masrat Alam Bhat, in jail, in emailed statements have known as for a strike on Friday. The J&Ok Excessive Courtroom Bar Affiliation protested within the courtroom premises on Thursday and known as for a strike on Friday throughout Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.

Political events throughout the spectrum took out protest marches demanding justice and return of the our bodies of civilians killed within the encounter. Former CM Omar Abdullah sat on a protest march in a authorities park close to his residence. One other former chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti, was put below home arrest. The J&Ok Folks’s Convention additionally took out a protest.

The encounter befell at a buying advanced owned by Bhat, in Hyderpora space on the freeway in Srinagar. The members of the family of Bhat, Gul and Aamir Magray have alleged that they have been civilians and used as “human shields and killed in chilly blood.”

Bhat ran a ironmongery shop on the bottom flooring, Gul was his tenant on first flooring operating a development enterprise workplace. Aamir was Gul’s workplace assistant. The police declare that 4 individuals killed within the operation included two militants – a Pakistani, Haider and Aamir – whereas accusing Gul of being a high militant affiliate who offered logistical assist to them.