Another fake encounter; J

Srinagar, Feb 18 (UNI) Jammu and Kashmir High Court has directed the government to provide all details about the killing of a youth from north Kashmir at Nagrota in Jammu in a fake encounter by the Special Operation Group (SOG) of state police last year.

Justice Mansoor Ahmad Mir gave the order on a writ petition filed by one Abdul Rehman alleging that SOG killed his son Ghulam Rasool in a fake encounter and later labelled him as a fidayeen on August 8 last year.

Justice Mir directed the government to furnish the reply within a week besides asking the CID department of the police to submit all details about the incident before the court.

The petitioner said his son Ghulam Rasool, a resident of Sirjagir, Sopore, in north Kashmir district of Baramulla, disappeared on March 17, 2006 after he was picked up by the SOG.

He said despite visiting almost all the detention centres and interrogation centers, he was not provided any information about his son. He further said after the local police station refused to register a missing report, he got his son's photograph published in a local newspaper.

Counsel for the petitioner Manzoor Ahmad said on August 8, 2006 SSP Jammu Mukesh Singh and other SOG personnel killed Ghulam Rasool and another person in a ''fake encounter'' at Nagrota in the outskirts of Jammu city.

He said later police claimed that they have foiled a fidayeen attack and killed two militants including Ghulam Rasool.

However, the section officer of CID branch of Nagrota had presented a written report to Deputy Superintendent Police, Rural, Jammu in which it was mentioned that the claim made by the police was totally false and two people were killed in ''cold blood'' in presence of SSP Jammu.

The counsel, in support of his arguments, submitted the letter written by the CID office in which they had asked the Deputy Commissioner, Jammu, to file a murder case against the police officials involved in the incident.

UNI