Eyewitness Account: They Were Shot in ‘Cold Blood’

SHOPIAN:  Narrating the Shopian incident a middle aged woman, Maroofa Banoo today said she witnessed the bloodbath by her eyes on Saturday. “I am shocked how CRPF personnel from 14th Battalion pumped bullets into the youth and aimed their guns at a Bihari labourer who was also witness to the ‘bloody game’ being played by CRPF men. They even tried to shoot at me but I hid myself and escaped their evil intentions,” she said.

Narrating the eyewitness account, Maroofa said that she was at a few meters distance from CRPF headquarters located at Gargrin when some CRPF personnel standing outside the camp stopped two youth riding on a motorcycle.

“One of them was Tawseef who was known to me. I saw CRPF men were telling them something and suddenly, one of the CRPF man caught hold the Tawseef by collar while his colleague fired upon another youth accompanying Tawseef. I cried and in a blink other CRPF man pumped bullets into Tawseef. Tawseef died soon afterwards,” she said.

Maroofa Banoo said that two more civilians were passing through the busy Gagrin road who were also shot at by these uniformed men. “There was strike thin public movement there. A Bihari mason was watching all this from a shop and a CRPF man aimed his gun at him and shot him dead,” she said.

Terming the claim of CRPF personnel baseless that youth on motorcycle fired upon them, Maroofa said that firing was unprovoked and all the your youth were killed in cold blood.

Another college-going student, without disclosing his name, told CNS that “in order to label the slain youth as militants, CRPF men placed some grenades around their bodies. I am the witness to it and I denounce their claims. These CRPF men are misleading even police. Police should investigate the matter thoroughly and book these culprits,” he said. 

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