Army has initiated Court Martial against a Captain involved in an alleged encounter where three civilians mistaken to be terrorists were killed in Amshipura village of Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district in July 2020.
The Army says a Court of inquiry and the summary of evidence indicated the need for “disciplinary proceedings”.
Meanwhile, PRO (Defence) Srinagar in a statement said, “The Army has initiated general court martial proceedings against a Captain in Op Amshipura, Shopian in south Kashmir in July 2020 after the Court of Inquiry and the Summary of Evidence indicated a need for disciplinary proceedings.
Indian Army is committed to ethical conduct of operations. Further updates on the case will be shared in a manner so as not to prejudice due process of law.”
The proceedings are going on against Captain Bhopinder Singh who was then heading operation party in which three Chenab valley youth were killed in a staged encounter.
On July 18, the Army had claimed that three militants had been killed in an operation at Amshipora in Shopian. However, on the same day, J&K police distanced itself from the encounter and said in a statement that the input for the operation had come from the Army.
A month later, after coming across pictures of the “slain terrorists” on social media, the families of the three said they were labourers and that Mohd Ibrar, the youngest, was 16 years old.
