SRINAGAR: An indefinite curfew is in its 11th day in Shopian town of south Kashmir to prevent violence over the killing of five people by paramilitary CRPF.
The government has initiated a magisterial inquiry into the killings and has also directed that the CRPF personnel in Gagren village be replaced by the state policemen.
The Union Home Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde has also ordered a detailed inquiry into the killings. However separatists have dismissed the inquiries as eyewash.
The main opposition PDP has criticised the government saying while it was doing “everything to hush up the killing of five innocents” in Shopian by imposing curfew and restriction, the police has not even entertained the FIR lodged by the father of Tawseef Ahmad, one of the victims of the “CRPF carnage.”
Four people were killed on September 7 by the CRPF in Gagren. Three of them were civilians while the fourth is yet to be identified.
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Four days later, another civilian was shot dead when he was coming out of an alley in the same area.
Meanwhile on Monday no witness came in to depose before the authorities regarding the killings. It was the first day when the deputy commissioner Shopian had appealed to people to come with any information.
A local daily even reports that no one will ever do so. It quotes a group of locals saying they feared reprisal from the authorities itself.
