Gujarat LeT encounter was faked, court told.

[R0H1T]

According to analysts the revelations had come at a crucial time of elections and could harm Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's bid for another term. The last leg of the four-phase polls is due on Monday.

When did you get this news - 2004 or did you buy a time machine for posting such ol'stuff for your love of IND ?

 

[Windjammer]

When did you get this news - 2004 or did you buy a time machine for posting such ol'stuff for your love of IND ?

It's a sticky thread and such pearls by your army do deserve a prominent place...or as they say, old is gold.

 

[R0H1T]

It's a sticky thread and such pearls by your army do deserve a prominent place...or as they say, old is gold.

So remind me again why you need to go through a wormhole to post this ?

Indian Army Admits Faking Encounters In Siachen Glacier

New Delhi, May 8 (NNN): The Union Defence Ministry was shaken on Friday over revelations by a newspaper that its officers on duty in the Siachen Glacier had routinely stage- managed encounters with imaginary Pakistani troops.

The purpose behind all this was to paint the Army officers with false glory that would fetch them coveted gallantry awards. The army promptly admitted to faking encounters with "enemy personnel" in Siachen last year and said administrative action has been ordered against a colonel and a major and disciplinary action taken against another major.
Reacting to the report, an army spokesman told reporters in New Delhi that a Court of Inquiry (COI) has named Major Surinder Singh for faking the killings and disciplinary action has been ordered against him.

Administrative action has been ordered against Colonel K. D. Singh and Major Rohit Lama for what the army described as "administrative lapses".

However, the spokesman denied that Indian Army was claiming awards for "imagined gallantry" as reported in The Hindustan Times on Friday.

According to analysts the revelations had come at a crucial time of elections and could harm Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's bid for another term. The last leg of the four-phase polls is due on Monday.

Vajpayee's right-wing nationalist supporters are known to be partial to the army and object to public discussion of recent revelations of scandal-ridden financial deals involving the defence establishment.

Earlier, the Defence Ministry admitted in a press release on Friday that Major Singh had been blamed by the court for "having faked the killings of enemy personnel", but this version was changed later with an army spokesman confining himself to stating that this officer had been "found culpable of having exaggerated and faking some events on the Glacier".

The spokesman said the Commanding Officer and Major Lama were held "guilty of committing acts of omission and commission of administrative nature and not operationally-related nor to Major Singh's events."

Replying to questions whether the expose had sullied the image of the army, the spokesman sought to downplay the report. He said these the incidents were "individual events" and that stringent action would be taken against the guilty.

As per the Hindustan Times report during hearings at the court of inquiry (COI), at which Major Singh also gave details about fake kills by units other than his own, the so-called "enemy hits" in Siachen came under severe scrutiny.

One issue was the distance from which the video recordings of the "kills" were made. It was pointed out that the videos had been tampered with, and that the "enemy troops" seen on tape had not been, contrary to standard practice, "roped in".

Questions were also raised on the effective ranges of precision weapons - some of the "enemy kills" appeared to have been made at 1,500 metres, by jawans not trained to use sniper rifles.

"Facing the COI, Major Singh's commanding officer (CO) Col K. D. Singh vehemently denied all the charges of fake killings except those pertaining directly to Maj Singh," The Hindustan Times said.

Col Singh claimed that the only fake "kills" were those made by the Major himself on two occasions, and that the officer had been warned about them. He described Major Singh as having a diabolical frame of mind. He said that he (Col Singh) had instructed officers to give "correct, timely and unexaggerated reports". The veracity of videos of the "kills" was proved by the "excitement and zeal" in the background voices, he argued.

"It is amazing how the army failed to smell a rat about the abnormally high numbers of enemy 'kills' in Siachen," the paper said, quoting sources. Nobody seems to have found it strange that except on a handful of occasions, there was no retaliatory fire from the "enemy" when the "kill" was made.

Said an Intelligence officer in Leh: "In the last week of August when there was a genuine enemy kill, Pakistan kept firing at and shelling us for nearly 24 hours." 5/5 Gorkha Rifles has since moved on to elsewhere in Jammu and Kashmir. It has been replaced by a battalion of Jammu and Kashmir Rifles in the routine six-monthly turn-over of units on the Siachen Glacier.

It is worth mentioning here that Indian and Pakistani troops have been deployed since 1984 on the snowy wastes of the Siachen Glacier, north of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. It is one of the world's most inhospitable places, where more soldiers die of cold and altitude sickness than through enemy action.

"Based on certain complaints that enemy killings have been fabricated by one unit in central glacier, a court of inquiry was ordered," the Defence Ministry said in a statement.

It said a major had been found guilty of "having faked killings of some enemy personnel and destruction of enemy bunkers." The officer faces disciplinary action.

In its report, The Hindustan Times said that a third of the 50 killings of Pakistan soldiers attributed to Indian troops on the Siachen Glacier last year may turn out to be false. To make their claim realistic, Indian troops built an air defence bunker on their side of the glacier and destroyed it with rockets and mortars, claiming it was a Pakistani bunker, the paper said.

INDOlink - India General News: Indian Army Admits Faking Encounters In Siachen Glacier

P.S.
Is it not common for people to seek glory ? Though its wrong but still they're not like the US/NATO forces in Iraq/AFG who tortured civilians to death for their so called WoT !

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

my 2 personal favourites:

Questions were also raised on the effective ranges of precision weapons - some of the "enemy kills" appeared to have been made at 1,500 metres, by jawans not trained to use sniper rifles.

Indian troops built an air defence bunker on their side of the glacier and destroyed it with rockets and mortars, claiming it was a Pakistani bunker, the paper said.


INDOlink - India General News: Indian Army Admits Faking Encounters In Siachen Glacier

 

[Windjammer]

CBI takes charge of probe in Ishrat Jahan fake encounter




The CBI today formally took over investigation into the 2004 fake encounter death of Mumbai college girl Ishrat Jahan and three others, following directions from the Gujarat High Court.

A team of CBI officials headed by IG V V Laxminarayan, who heads the Hyderabad Zone of the agency, was handed over the case papers and other documents related to the case here by officials of the high court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT), which has termed the police encounter as "fake".

Investigating officer for the case G Kalaimani, who holds the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP), DIG Arun Bothra from the CBI Special Crime Zone (II) besides lower rank officials were present on the occasion.

According to SIT officials, they handed over case papers, evidences, original statements along with English translations to the agency.

CBI takes charge of probe in Ishrat Jahan fake encounter - Indian Express
Can we hang Narendra Modi?
By: rajkumar | 06-Jan-2012
Modi being the head of the government has direct responsibility in this case. Just like Hosni Mubarak or Egypt, Saddam Hussien of Iraq and Gaddaffi of Libya faced human rights crimes, I strongly believe Narendra Modi, his ministers and top police officials should face criminal charges not less than death sentence. Arrest them all before they further erase all evidence. This crime is worse than 2G RAJA Scam

 

[Windjammer]

NEW DELHI: In a parting shot at both new Army chief General Bikram Singh and 3 Corps commander Lt-Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag, Gen V K Singh on Thursday expressed "concern" that a probe was not conducted into the complaint of an alleged fake encounter in which three persons were apparently killed in Dimapur.

While the alleged encounter took place in March 2010, the confidential complaint about the incident was lodged by a major -- T Ravi Kiran of 3 Corps Intelligence and Surveillance Unit (CISU) -- in January this year when Gen Bikram Singh was the Eastern Army commander and Lt-Gen Suhag was the 3 Corps commander at Dimapur.

"When something is written to me, I forward it to the HQs concerned to investigate. So far as I know, it has not been investigated. This is one of the issues we are seriously looking at... Obviously, everybody is concerned that such a thing should happen and investigation does not take place," said Gen V K Singh.

Earlier this month, Gen V K Singh had also slapped a show-cause censure notice and discipline and vigilance (DV) ban on Lt-Gen Suhag, who was the frontrunner to become the chief in August 2014 but whose promotion to Army commander rank is now on hold. The notice accuses Lt-Gen Suhag of lapses in command in handling a botched-up intelligence operation by the same CISU in Jorhat district of Assam last December.

Outgoing Army chief's last shot, fake encounter claim was not probed - The Times of India

 

[Windjammer]

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday took serious note of a PIL alleging that there had been apathy on the Centre and Manipur government's part to bring to book the guilty among armed forces and state police, which allegedly were responsible for 1,528 extra-judicial killings in last 30 years.

The impact of the magnitude of extra-judicial killings of innocent citizens in Manipur was visible on a bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Ranajana P Desai, which had been instrumental in getting the CBI to go full throttle and unearth larger conspiracy behind two such fake encounters in Gujarat, where alleged criminals Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram Prajapati were killed by police officers.

The bench took judicial note of the PIL by NGOs — Extra-judicial Execution Victims families Association of Manipur through Neena N and Human Rights Alert through Babloo Loitongbam - and issued notices to the Centre and the Ibobi Singh government. It asked the Centre and state to file their responses by November 5.

Asking petitioner's counsel senior advocate Colin Gonsalves to make other required officials party to the PIL, the court requested the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to respond to the macabre incidents and appointed advocate Menaka Guruswami as amicus curiae to assist the court in the case.

The petition gave details of each of the 1,528 people killed in fake encounter since 1979. It said though the SC upheld the constitutional validity of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) 15 years ago, it had issued certain dos and don'ts to the security forces. But, these guidelines were seldom followed, it alleged.

"By way of example, petitioner cites details of 10 cases where eyewitnesses exist, but the killings had been justified as encounters with militants," the petitioner alleged. Even though the PIL detailed the killings by the security forces and police, it did not reflect on the killings resorted to by militants in the state, which could have resulted in eliminating an equal number of persons in the state.

"In almost all cases, young boys attending to their daily chores were picked up randomly by security forces and killed in cold blood. In several of these cases eye-witnesses, parents and neighbours were present when the victims were gunned down," the petitioner said.

"What are even more frightening are the breakdown of the criminal justice system and a complete denial of the protection of right to life guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution. There is not a single instance where the perpetrators of the heinous crimes - torturing and killing of young in cold blood - have been brought to justice," the petitioner said.

"Out of the 1,528 killings, petitions relating to 20 murders were taken to the Guwahati High Court where these are still pending. The cries of anguish had fallen on deaf ears," it said and alleged that not a single investigation or departmental inquiry against the alleged perpetrator had been taken to logical end.

The petitioner said in a functioning democracy eyewitness accounts would be immediately acted upon leading to registration of murder cases, but "in Manipur such FIRs are not accepted at the police station, no investigation is done and no disciplinary action is taken".

1,528 victims of fake encounters in Manipur: PIL - The Times of India

 

[idune]

Looks like faking encounter became defacto trend in indian armed forces and in law enforcement agency.

 

[CANADIAN_SIKH]

india is famous for fake encounters from punjab, kashmir, and now gujjurat anything to keep minorities in the bottom. If groups like Babbar khalsa,LETect are considered terrorist groups then why aren't shiv sena rss those who attack minorites, call for hindu india double standards of india

 

[T90TankGuy]

india is famous for fake encounters from punjab, kashmir, and now gujjurat anything to keep minorities in the bottom. If groups like Babbar khalsa,LETect are considered terrorist groups then why aren't shiv sena rss those who attack minorites, call for hindu india double standards of india

Why have you reopened a 2 yr old thread?

 

[$elf]

Why have you reopened a 2 yr old thread?

he is troll.

he lives in canada and dreams about khalistan

 

[T90TankGuy]

he is troll.

he lives in canada and dreams about khalistan

Yeah seen some of his posts, makes me laugh how stupid some can be

 

[SRP]

NEW DELHI: The CBI is poised to file a supplementary chargesheet in the Ishrat Jahan 'fake' encounter case. Central Bureau of Investigation sources have said that BJP general secretary, who was the Gujarat home minister at the time of the encounter, will not be named in the case as speculated.

According to Times Now, the CBI has not found any concrete proof to indict Narendra Modi's assistant.

Earlier, the CBI filed a CBI filed chargesheet on July 3 terming the encounter fake and saying it was a joint operation between Gujarat Police and Intelligence Bureau (IB).

In August, 2013, Gujarat additional director general of police PP Pandey was arrested by CBI in the case. Prior to that IPS officer GL Singhal and five other policemen were arrested. Singhal and others procured bail as CBI failed to file chargesheet in stipulated 90 days.

The chargesheet filed by CBI in the Ishrat case mentioned that Singhal had submitted pen drives of recorded conversations with then minister of state for home Amit Shah and one about a meeting held in the office of state attorney general in which some ministers were present to allegedly derail encounter investigations.

CBI had later questioned Shah, another former minister Praful Patel, present minister Pradeepsinh Jadeja and advocate general Kamal Trivedi regarding the recorded conversations submitted by Singhal, before they are to file second charge sheets in the case.


Ishrat Jahan encounter case: Amit Shah 'won't be charged' - The Times of India