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‘Fake’ Encounter
Colonel, Major chargesheeted

Srinagar, July 15 
The Jammu and Kashmir Police today filed a chargesheet against a Colonel, a Major and seven others in a case of alleged fake encounter in which three youths were killed in the frontier district of Kupwara in April.

Official sources the chargesheet has named Col DK Pathania, Maj Upinder and four others of the unit besides a Territorial Army jawan and two others for allegedly conspiring and kidnapping three youths from Sopore on the pretext of giving them jobs and later killing them in the higher reaches of Kupwara claiming they were terrorists. The chargesheet was filed in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate in Sopore.

The Army was sent three reminders by the police for handing over the custody of the officers for their custodial interrogation as they claimed there was enough evidence to suggest their involvement in the killing of Muhammad Shafi, Shehzad Ahmed and Riyaz Ahmed, who were shot on the night of April 29. — PTI