'WE WERE NOT ALONE' SAYS THE ACCUSED
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Blame J-K cops, not just us for Pathribal: Brigadier to DGMO
RITU SARIN Posted online: Monday, May 15, 2006 at 0000 hrs
http://indianexpress.com/story/4462.html#
Fake encounter: Joint Op was on Anantnag SSPs information: Brig Saxena; Army plans to appeal against trial, suggest court martial
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NEW DELHI, MAY 14: With the CBI filing chargesheets against five Army officers in the fake Pathribal encounter and the case listed for hearing on May 24 in a Srinagar court, Army Headquarters plans to ask the court to let them hold a court martial instead of subjecting the officers to a trial after a CBI probe.
The Indian Express has learnt that Brigadier Ajay Saxena, the seniormost officer named as an accused by the CBI, has written a letter to Lt General Madan Gopal, Director General of Military Operations (DGMO), pointing out how five Army personnel (four officers and a JCO) have been singled out for “harassment, ignominy, humiliation, agony and financial strain†over an operation conducted jointly by the Army and J&K Police.
Brig Saxena has said that the operation was ordered by a senior Army officer (Sector Commander) of the Rashtriya Rifles on the basis of information provided by the SSP of Anantnag.
Brig Saxena’s wife, Sushma Saxena, has also written to the Army chief’s wife Anupama Singh who’s the president of the Army Wives Welfare Association (AWWA).
Saying she was expressing the views of wives of all five officers who have been indicted by the CBI, Sushma Saxena wrote: “If our husbands are prosecuted in this case, then every husband who is fighting in the Valley in the future is also liable to face such action... all our husbands have done is obey orders and carry out operations based on information provided by a Senior Commander and the police.â€
The circumstances of the Pathribal encounter have now been outlined by the indicted officers for the Army top brass. The DGMO is understood to have been told that:
• The Pathribal encounter took place in an area notified as a Disturbed Area under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1990 and that protection should be provided to the five officers named as “accused†by the CBI.
• That two of the five persons killed in the operation were on the list of active overground workers maintained by the Rashtriya Rifles and that the CBI probe revealed that a third among the dead also had terrorist links.
• That during the relevant period (command of Brig Saxena), the 7 RR unit received over 50 awards, including a dozen Sena medals. In two years, the unit eliminated 78 militants.
• That the CBI chargesheet had serious operational ramifications for future Kashmir operations since it would create distrust in the rank and file about verbal orders and posed a threat to the lone Kashmiri accused whose intelligence inputs had led to the elimination of 40 terrorists.
Though the CBI’s legal panel rules that the agency does not require sanction for prosecuting Army officers because killing of innocent persons in a fake encounter cannot be taken as discharge of “official dutyâ€, the Army is gearing to challenge that view in the Srinagar court.
The Army’s counter is that the Pathribal encounter was a joint Police-Army operation, carried out on intelligence provided by the J&K police and that trial would jeopardise further joint counter-insurgency operations.
ritu.sarin@expressindia.com
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Comments of B.S.Goraya
"Jis ka koi nahi us ka khuda hai yaro"
On March 20, 2000, innocent Sikhs numbering 35 were killed in Anantnag Distt. of Kashmir. People including human right groups had strong suspicions that it was the kartoot of Indian agencies. It was done in view of US president Bill Clington's visit to Indian Sub-continent. The Sikhs were used as dummy because the politicians knew that there is hardly any statesman who can raise the cry here and internationally. Because the Akali leaders like Parkash Singh Badal were manageable. More over they knew Badal was their ally of the ruling alliance Delhi and his son was a minister. They knew the Congress's Sikh leaders have no guts because their own party had massacred about 3000 Sikhs in 1984. Obviously no one bothered to enquire into the massacre. But God has his own ways to reveal the truth. The killers of Chittisingpora subsequently killed 5 innocent Kashmiri Muslims and claimed that they have liquidated the foreign militants responsible for Chittisinghpora massacre. What the army branded as mercenaries were innocent Kashmiris of the nearby villages. There was a mass protest and the graves had to exhumed and it was finally determined that the people were local innocents. Under tremendous pressure the Govt had to order CBI enquiry which has now booked 5 army officers including a Brigadier. But in the present story Brigadier claims that army alone is not responsible for the misdeed. Here is a story that appeared in Indian Express few days ago but slipped the eye this writer. Kartarpur Kooker B.S.Goraya Amritsar
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Comments of B.S.Goraya
"Jis ka koi nahi us ka khuda hai yaro"
On March 20, 2000, innocent Sikhs numbering 35 were killed in Anantnag Distt. of Kashmir. People including human right groups had strong suspicions that it was the kartoot of Indian agencies. It was done in view of US president Bill Clington's visit to Indian Sub-continent. The Sikhs were used as dummy because the politicians knew that there is hardly any statesman who can raise the cry here and internationally. Because the Akali leaders like Parkash Singh Badal were manageable. More over they knew Badal was their ally of the ruling alliance Delhi and his son was a minister. They knew the Congress's Sikh leaders have no guts because their own party had massacred about 3000 Sikhs in 1984. Obviously no one bothered to enquire into the massacre. But God has his own ways to reveal the truth. The killers of Chittisingpora subsequently killed 5 innocent Kashmiri Muslims and claimed that they have liquidated the foreign militants responsible for Chittisinghpora massacre. What the army branded as mercenaries were innocent Kashmiris of the nearby villages. There was a mass protest and the graves had to exhumed and it was finally determined that the people were local innocents. Under tremendous pressure the Govt had to order CBI enquiry which has now booked 5 army officers including a Brigadier. But in the present story Brigadier claims that army alone is not responsible for the misdeed. Here is a story that appeared in Indian Express few days ago but slipped the eye this writer. Kartarpur Kooker B.S.Goraya Amritsar
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