Jammu 31 December (KNB): Jammu and Kashmir’s Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh said that he has no reason to dispute with Army officials regarding the Srinagar encounter in which three ‘militants were killed’ but will investigate the claims made by families of slain trio.
While addressing the media DGP Singh said that he has no reason to dispute what the GoC Kilo Force (H S Sahi) has stated about the Lawaypora encounter.
Responding to a query he said that the families of two slain youth claimed that their children had gone to submit forms at a University.
“I want to ask them what were their children doing at encounter site if they had gone to submit a form?,” he said.
Similarly, GoC Sahi yesterday informed the media that the slain trio had plans to carry out a big attack on the Srinagar-Baramulla highway and that the trio turned down repeated surrender offers from the forces amid the encounter.
He said that at times families, especially parents of the children are not aware about the activities of their wards.
“We will still investigate allegations leveled by the families’. If there is anything, we will probe that,” he added.
Regarding the slain trio not being listed as militants, the DGP Kashmir said that it is not important that every militant is listed with the police.
When any person leaves home to join any outfit, they don’t inform their parents, he added.
Pertinently, three youth identified as Aijaz Ahmed Ganai, Ather Mushtaq, and Zubair Ahmed were killed in the encounter at Lawaypora, near Hokerser on Srinagar outskirts yesterday.
Soon after the trio was killed, their families staged a strong protest outside Police Control Room (PCR) Srinagar while claiming that their wards were not militants but students.
The families also urged J&K Lt Governor Manoj Sinha to probe the encounter at the highest level and serve them justice.
Similarly, several prominent regional political parties also took to the twitter and other social media platforms and demanded a judicial inquiry into the encounter. (KNB)