Police lead Ghulam Rasool Pandroo to identify the exhumed body of his son.
He had to helplessly watch a body pumped with bullets pulled out from a grave, only to confront the horrible, inescapable fact — the body was that of his young son, an ordinary carpenter deliberately murdered in a fabricated encounter, so he could be dubbed a militant.
“Even if I were blind, I would know this is my child,� is all that 65-year old Padroo said, his voice dropping to a whisper, as the shovels came down on the shroud and the dust flew up to stop his tears.
For once the political and security establishment swung into swift damage control mode. The state’s Inspector General of Police was quick to order action against his own officers; the Chief Minister announced a judicial probe and forensic teams were flown in to investigate four other custodial killings masquerading as ‘encounters’.
Barkha Dutt @THIRD EYE - Missing the boat [Source]
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Rashmi 02.04.07 at 7:37 am
Hmm, its always the big fish eat the small fish story and at the end of it all its always the poorest and the people from the lowest strata of the society who has to suffer it all.
Recently watched the documentry “Born into brothels” if you haven’t do watch it…quite an eye opener into the red light area at Kolkata.
If you are wondering, chanced your comment on notestomyself.
Sharique 02.04.07 at 11:31 am
Thanks for suggesting me that documentary, I will catch that soon.
Big fish eating the small one has always been the order of this world but when someone is trying to woo the small fish, the big fish cannot take chances! But this is unfortunately happening in J&K, they are feigning encounters to earn medals!!
trip 02.04.07 at 6:19 pm
shameful. the secular democracy of India shoul ensure that the guilty are punished and more accountability brought into armed forces equipped with special powers. chance for India to stand apart from the lawless and unaccountable pakistan.