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Havildar admits to fake encounters

Jodhpur, June 4
Another Armyman today told a military court that he fired on concocted enemy bunkers in Siachen on August 24 and September 21, last year, while Maj Surinder Singh, alleged to have faked encounters, filmed them.

Havildar Neer Bhadur Ale, deposing before the court recording summary evidence against Maj Surinder Singh, said: “Both the August 24 and September 21 encounters were fake. The site for both the encounters was the same but targets showing enemy bunkers were constructed separately for each encounter.”

Earlier, on June 1, junior commissioned officer Naib Sub Phatte Bahadur Thapa had told the court that his Company Commander Maj Surinder Singh had got the fake encounters enacted. Ale, who looked after anti-guided missiles, said he fired on the fake targets with Maj Surinder Singh shooting with video camera from behind. — PTI