SRINAGAR, Dec 6: The Jammu and Kashmir police has indicted two army officers for the disappearance of a local youth seventeen years ago.
They said Major Vishwajeet Singh and Commandant S.K Malik of Army’s 20 Grenadiers had caused the disappearance of Mushtaq Ahmad Dar who went missing from Tengpora locality in capital Srinagar’s Batmaloo area on April 13, 1997.
Dar’s mother had filed a petition in High Court alleging her son ‘was arrested by the army, only never to return’.
“The case stands proved under Section 364 RPC against Major Vishwajeet Singh and Commandant S K Malik of Army’s 20 Grenadiers, who were stationed at Boatman colony Bemina,” reads the status report filed by police in the court according to local dailies.
As part of a communication process in 2009, police had received a letter from then Major Adjutant, 20 Grenadiers, which stated that “no operation was carried out by the army unit during the intervening night of April 13, 1997 in the area of Batmaloo and no individual namely Mushtaq Ahmad Dar was apprehended by the Unit”.
But the High Court has asked Director General of Police (DGP) to file a fresh status report within two weeks about steps taken by police for getting sanction to prosecute the army officers.
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