Indian border security guard admits killing school boy

[grey boy 2]

Indian border security guard admits killing school boy - People's Daily Online February 10, 2010

India' s paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) in India-controlled Kashmir Wednesday said one of its troopers was found involved in the killing of a 16-year-old youth last week in Srinagar.

The admission was made by the BSF Special Director General P. P. S. Sidhu during a press briefing in Srinagar.

"The prima facie evidence has revealed the possibility of involvement of Constable Lakhwinder Kumar of 68 battalion of BSF, in the shootout that resulted in the death of Zahid Farooq Sheikh of Nishat. As a consequence he has been handed over to the local police for further investigations," Singh said.

However, Sidhu evaded as to why the paramilitary trooper fired on the youth.

"I can't say. It is a matter of investigation. The Jammu and Kashmir Police will do the investigation which will reveal everything," Singh said.

Zahid Farooq, a class 10 student of Srinagar was killed Friday after being hit by a bullet in chest.

Locals alleged paramilitary troopers fired upon the youth without any provocation.

According to locals Zahid along with his friends was sitting in a playground, when a paramilitary vehicle stopped near the ground and men came down running towards them hurling abuses and firing indiscriminately, without any provocation late afternoon.

Following the killing of youth, hundreds of people poured into roads and started protesting against the killing. The protesters were raising pro-freedom and anti-Indian and anti-government slogans.

The region's Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has also ordered a probe into the death of the teenager and asked the top civil official to head the investigations.

The killing of Farooq raises the toll of the civilian killings from January this year to five.

Source: Xinhua

 

[PlanetWarrior]

Irresponsible and unnecessary death from what is contained in the article. Hope that investigations are concluded quickly and that the BSF guard is given the appropriate punishment if found guilty

 

[AliFarooq]

Irresponsible and unnecessary death from what is contained in the article. Hope that investigations are concluded quickly and that the BSF guard is given the appropriate punishment if found guilty

u think punishing the individual would help, easing the situation??

 

[equiliz3r]

u think punishing the individual would help, easing the situation??

will certainly help

 

[navtrek]

u think punishing the individual would help, easing the situation??

What else do you suggest ? personally punishing him will make people gain confidence in the government they elected

 

[ameer219]

What else do you suggest ? personally punishing him will make people gain confidence in the government they elected

Do not want to make into another Kashmir conflict case so as not to deviate from the topic ,but they were many cases of civillians being killed and they did not face justice. How can you be sure that this will be solved?And if I am not wrong,corruption is quite high?

PS:Its just a question ,not challenging or anthing,do not have to answer,and I hope this question wont stoke anger.

 

[jagjitnatt]

Do not want to make into another Kashmir conflict case so as not to deviate from the topic ,but they were many cases of civillians being killed and they did not face justice. How can you be sure that this will be solved?And if I am not wrong,corruption is quite high?

PS:Its just a question ,not challenging or anthing,do not have to answer,and I hope this question wont stoke anger.

Corruption has nothing to do with a case like this. Corruption works when the two parties break the law for mutual benefit. What benefit can this jawaan cause to the govt. Whereas punishing him would restore the faith towards the govt. And also, nobody would be fool enough to open fire at an innocent for no reason. There has to be something, reasonable or not, that would be decided by the court.

 

[jagjitnatt]

Also you and me are people too ordinary to know what happened with the previous cases. Kashmir is full of trouble. The ordinary people have nothing to do with freedom and anything like that. Terrorism, Fundamentalists, extremists, these are the people responsible for it.

Nobody knows what is going on. Indians are fed, people are happy. Pakistanis are fed people want freedom. Its a very complicated issue that needs to be addressed by the common people of Kashmir and not some fundamentalist.

 

[ameer219]

Corruption has nothing to do with a case like this. Corruption works when the two parties break the law for mutual benefit. What benefit can this jawaan cause to the govt. Whereas punishing him would restore the faith towards the govt. And also, nobody would be fool enough to open fire at an innocent for no reason. There has to be something, reasonable or not, that would be decided by the court.

Dont mean to burst your bubble but have you forgotten the Gujurat riots?Where the Govt of Gujurat played a huge role in it.Do not want to deviate from the topic but think about it.

And I beg to differ on your statement that the People Of Kashmir do not want freedom,but than again,it will go on and on and on and its never ending.Therefore I will rest my case

 

[jagjitnatt]

Dont mean to burst your bubble but have you forgotten the Gujurat riots?Where the Govt of Gujurat played a huge role in it.Do not want to deviate from the topic but think about it.

And I beg to differ on your statement that the People Of Kashmir do not want freedom,but than again,it will go on and on and on and its never ending.Therefore I will rest my case

Well in case of Gujarat, there was a riot. Its different than a murder. There are a lot of things involved in riots and to top it all govt. of gujarat is not an individual. Its run by hundreds of men. Modi can be blamed for the riots, but he is the CM, and I guess you are mature enough to differentiate between a common jawaan and a CM.

And for Kashmir, I told you, ground realities could be completely different from what you and me have been told. You've gotta go there, survey people, understand the mindset and problems involved to get an understanding of the situation. I can always make baseless comments like balochistan wants freedom, but based on a handful people, i can not make a generalised view about balochistanis.

Peace...

 

[ameer219]

Well in case of Gujarat, there was a riot. Its different than a murder. There are a lot of things involved in riots and to top it all govt. of gujarat is not an individual. Its run by hundreds of men. Modi can be blamed for the riots, but he is the CM, and I guess you are mature enough to differentiate between a common jawaan and a CM.

I guess its well explained,no doubts about your reply

And for Kashmir, I told you, ground realities could be completely different from what you and me have been told. You've gotta go there, survey people, understand the mindset and problems involved to get an understanding of the situation. I can always make baseless comments like balochistan wants freedom, but based on a handful people, i can not make a generalised view about balochistanis.

Sir as much as I would like to agree with you,balochistan had already agreed to join with Pakistan.But Kashmir is a different case,the people there were not given the rights to choose the country they wanted and was controlled by India.

But yet again,I have to agree with you about ground realities,maybe they could have either choosen to be independent more than joining pakistan, but to conclude all of this and to finalise it,I guess a survey or a UN plebiscite should be done to settle this 60 years conflict.

 

[jagjitnatt]

Sir as much as I would like to agree with you,balochistan had already agreed to join with Pakistan.But Kashmir is a different case,the people there were not given the rights to choose the country they wanted and was controlled by India.

But yet again,I have to agree with you about ground realities,maybe they could have either choosen to be independent more than joining pakistan, but to conclude all of this and to finalise it,I guess a survey or a UN plebiscite should be done to settle this 60 years conflict.

yeah, I've been to srinagar. not beyond that. And trust me, they are ordinary people who are very peaceful, fed up of the kashmir issue and frankly a lot of them don't care what country they are with. They need jobs and basically depend on tourists for their businesses. They dream of educating their children and sending them to bigger cities so that they don't have to earn their living by doing petty jobs that their parents had to do. Now tell me yaar, they are just like us, why would they want to create chaos and fight wars.
There are very few fundamentalists who just don't want to change their view and force their decisions on the rest of the people of Kashmir. The common people have the faith in the govt, but the govt does not have complete control over the situation. Once these extremists understand the real deal and how they are destroying their beautiful state, things will change forever. Hopefully then someday we would be able to have a cup of tea in some part of kashmir without any fear.

cheers.

 

[ameer219]

well so wrong you are

they want peace and yes few pepoles want to destroy peace they want good food education and rest thing

kashmiri dont want to join pakistan at any condition

can you tell me pepoples of baluchistan are fighting for freedom

I do not think you have done any form of survey or anything to really prove that kashmir wants to stay with India right?Looking at how grim the situation is there,I am very sure about my stance that they would want to leave India,be it they want to join Pakistan,or be it an independent state.

And just like Kashmir,Balochistan is also a peaceful state,until the so called WoT occur,and many people now in that state have supported the government in tackling the insurgents,by the tribal groups forming militias on their own.They would now prefer to be with Pakistan

 

[ameer219]

The common people have the faith in the govt, but the govt does not have complete control over the situation. Once these extremists understand the real deal and how they are destroying their beautiful state, things will change forever. Hopefully then someday we would be able to have a cup of tea in some part of kashmir without any fear.

cheers.

Do not worry,the people of Kashmir have started to see this,that by supporting terrorism,nothing is going to change,so they would prefer to actually do peaceful demonstration.Things have change,now they realise,that being armed would not have a change.

Haha,maybe one day we would go the Himalayans mountains and have a cup of tea.

Cheers