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INDIA HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2005 Jammu and Kashmir<br />
Since its coming to power two years<br />
ago the PDP-Congress coalition<br />
Government led by Mufti Mohammed<br />
Sayeed ordered as many as 54 inquiries to<br />
probe extra-judicial killings and other<br />
human rights violations. Only 1 probe was<br />
concluded by 2004. 30<br />
On the night of 10 January 2004, the<br />
personnel of the 54 Rahstriya Rifles<br />
<strong>report</strong>edly shot dead a tea-stall owner<br />
Abdul Gafar, resident of Suwari near<br />
Rashtriya Rifles Brigade Head Quarter<br />
Kotranka in Budhal area of district<br />
Rajouri. The security personnel allegedly<br />
opened heavy firing after they heard a big<br />
bang caused by closing of the bathroom<br />
door by the deceased. 31<br />
On 11 March 2004, a 16-year-old boy<br />
Javid Ahmad Dar was allegedly shot death<br />
by the Rashtriya Rifles troops at Payer-<br />
Jageer village in Pulwama district allegedly<br />
without any provocation. 32<br />
On 15 May 2004, security <strong>for</strong>ces<br />
allegedly shot dead an innocent teenaged<br />
boy Firdous Ahmad Lone at Ganawpora<br />
village in Sophian area. Lone was<br />
<strong>report</strong>edly playing cricket along with some<br />
other youths. When they saw the security<br />
<strong>for</strong>ces, they ran. The security personnel<br />
opened fire on them, killing Firdous on the<br />
spot. 33<br />
On the night of 9 June 2004, a night<br />
patrolling party of security <strong>for</strong>ces opened<br />
fire on two farmers-Ghulam Mohammad<br />
Mir and Fayaz Ahmad while the two were<br />
watering their field in the village in<br />
Pulwama district. While Mir died on the<br />
spot, Fayaz was seriously injured. 34<br />
On 5 July 2004, two youth from Kota<br />
village in Damhal Hanjipora in Qazigund<br />
in Anantnag district, Ghulam Mohammad<br />
Naikoo and Abdul Rasheed, who were<br />
working as labourers in Srinagar, had<br />
<strong>report</strong>edly gone missing. The villagers<br />
came to know that the two have been<br />
killed and buried at a local graveyard at<br />
Lamad village in Qazigund. Upon<br />
exhumation at the direction of the<br />
Anantnag district administration on 27<br />
July 2004, the two corpses were identified<br />
to be of the two missing labourers. While<br />
the locals said the deceased were innocent,<br />
the army claimed the two were members<br />
of armed opposition groups and were<br />
killed in an encounter. 35<br />
The Jammu and Kashmir Police<br />
registered a murder case against the army<br />
personnel <strong>for</strong> the killing of 17-year-old<br />
Rizwam-ul-Haq and Muzaffar Ahmed<br />
Ganai of Pulwama district on 10<br />
September 2004. The State government<br />
also ordered a probe into the killing. 36<br />
On 22 September 2004, the army<br />
personnel <strong>report</strong>edly arrested one<br />
Mohammed Yousuf Khan of Karnah in<br />
Kupwara district. Four days later his body<br />
was handed over to the Karnah police on<br />
26 September 2004. Thousands of people<br />
<strong>report</strong>edly staged demonstrations<br />
demanding probe into the killing. 37<br />
On 15 December 2004, Border<br />
Security Forces at Hathi Shah bridge in<br />
Jamia Qadeem area of Sopore in<br />
Baramullah district <strong>report</strong>edly shot dead<br />
three youth. The BSF claimed that they<br />
were members of the armed opposition<br />
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