Bar Condemns Army Firing in Pahalgam

SrinagarJ&K High Court Bar Association, Srinagar, strongly condemned the opening of fire by army on a group of people at Walarhama village in Pahalgam area of South Kashmir, in which at least five civilians including an old woman were injured and had to be rushed to District Hospital Anantnag, where two of them with severe bullet injuries, had to be operated upon to save their life.

The Bar Association maintained that earlier also, when the braid choppers were caught by people at Kulgam, Kupwara and Uri, the army and police immediately came on spot and resorted to firing and teargas shelling to rescue the braid choppers and it is exactly the same what has happened at Wularhama, where a braid chopper, who attempted to cut the hair of a local lady was spotted by the people, who wanted to catch-hold of him but he ran away and took shelter in an army vehicle which was doing rounds of the village and to save the culprit, the army resorted to indiscriminate firing, which caused chaos and confusion amongst the people and also injuries to many of them.

The Bar Association also condemned the subjecting of undertrial prisoners and detenues lodged in Kotebalwal Jail, Jammu, to physical torture and stripping and also keeping them in solitary confinement in small cells for weeks together, on their entry into the jail and requests the High Court to take judicial notice of the matter and initiate action against the culprits, who have no respect for the human rights of the prisoners. The High Court having been asked by the Supreme Court to monitor the conditions of the jails and the treatment meted out to the detenues and undertrial prisoners lodged over there, is therefore, required to act fast as it has to furnish a report to the Apex Court within two months regarding the conditions of jails and the treatment meted out to the detenues and undertrial prisoners by the jail authorities. The assault on Mohammad Shafi Shah and Javid Ahmad, both hailing from Kashmir and presently lodged in Tihar Jail, who were given a ruthless beating in Jail No. 3 of Tihar Jail recently, also deserves to be got investigated and those responsible for the dastardly act, deserves to be punished.

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