Srinagar: Showkat Rasool Malik son of Gulam Rasool an ex soldier of a TA unit located in Kupwara was arrested near village Zarhawra on charge of rape and was handed over by the locals to the Police Station Trehgam.
According to an army statement issued to KNS, Showkat Rasool Malik was enrolled into the TA unit of Army in Jan 2004 and on completion of 10 years of service, he was voluntarily disembodied from the unit on 01 Apr 2014.
At the time of the incident alleged to have been committed by the said person, he was not a serving soldier. Notwithstanding the above, Army deplores such an act committed by anybody.
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