Against protests in Kashmir over the killing of a youth, defence minister AK Antony ordered a speedy inquiry into the incident overruling the Army and directed that strong action be taken against anybody found guilty on Thursday.
“I have told the Army to complete the inquiry at the earliest and if anybody is found guilty we will take strong action,” he told reporters in Delhi. Earlier the Ministry spokesman issued a statement saying the same.
Hilal Ahmad Dar was killed allegedly in Army firing on Tuesday night in Bandipora in north Kashmir, triggering protests by locals who claimed that he was an innocent local youth and not a militant.
Prior to the defence minister’s directive, Army ruled out the need for any probe, maintaining that the deceased was a militant and weapons were recovered alongside him after being killed in retaliatory fire.
“For us there is nothing to prove … it is clear. Army is a disciplined force and carries out operations with honesty and integrity,” general officer commanding of the Army’s 15 Corps Lt General Om Prakash told reporters on the sidelines of a function in Srinagar earlier in the day.
He said the operation in which the youth was killed in Bandipora district on Tuesday night was based on intelligence inputs about movement of militants for the past three days through the area.
“During this operation, movement was observed late in the night. When they were challenged, they opened firing first which was retaliated. One person was killed and weapons were also recovered from the spot,” Lt Gen Prakash said.
Local residents have alleged that Dar was killed in custody.
-via The Times of India.
But Saint Antony is cowed down by the Min of Def Bureaucrats / Miliotary Generals to go backfoot on the issue of profits from all URCs selling CSD goods to non-CSD goods and services to the consolodated funds of India. That’s Hippocratic.
@becbatch1977
Sir i do’nt what did you mean by saying this but this is a fact today ARMY is getting crores and crores of money as profit from CSD canteens. and this profit is diverted all in the name welfare to jawans and then misused to maintain five star guest rooms and officer messes also the residences of top bosses.
hi,
All most all canteen not doing for the welfare of the armed forces , all the canteens(99.9%) are the unit run canteen and due to selling of the huge quantity they are getting the profits .
(i) monitory befits as a extra charges .
(ii)Adjustments of the gift items
(iii) While marketing the items in CSD the company is paying huge amount as a processing charges (under the tables/bribes )
(iv) some csd are involved in selling of trucks of items to civilians and doing the tax evasion.
(v) other minor adjustments , like selling the liqueurs to out side personnels , DFR adjustments etc
In ASTE , AF their income is crossed more than 150 %, so their TC, command asked the objection about this , it means the welfare is forgotten and doing the business with poor soldiers .
but ironically ,as per the consumer rights, it should comes under the preview of the consumer right , but it is not happening with the case of CSD.
And this URC , money is utilising for the party at officer messes/or gifts to senior officer’s visits , or other benefit to officer .
By this one old saying in Air force is again proved correct .”while the independence of india , Britisher were handed over the all charges to Indians , that time 2 files were missing , one was the discipline of the Officer’s , and other one was welfare of the men” .
Every where the poor soldiers are victimised .
thank god at last the good sense prevails and defense minister has started taking decision on fake encounters.
Yes, every fake encounter reported must be probed and guilty be punished.