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INDIA HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2005 Jammu and Kashmir<br />
group and were on a suicide mission upon<br />
the BSF camp. However, one of the<br />
deceased, Fayaz Ahmad Peer was found<br />
out to be a medical assistant of Sub<br />
District Hospital, Naw Hamam-Sopore.<br />
Fayaz, a resident of Machipora-Sopore<br />
was <strong>report</strong>edly heading towards the Block<br />
Medical Office, Sopore to collect his<br />
salary when the security <strong>for</strong>ces opened fire<br />
on him. 38<br />
The security <strong>for</strong>ces also <strong>report</strong>edly<br />
used civilians as human shield and to clear<br />
mines with bare hands. On 6 February<br />
2004, Mohammad Yaqoob, Mohammad<br />
Aslam, Farooq Ahmed, Sakhi Mohammad<br />
and Ghulam Jeelani- all residents of<br />
Bandipore town in Baramullah district<br />
who were taken as porter were allegedly<br />
used as “human shields” by the Jammu &<br />
Kashmir Rifles. On 8 February 2004,<br />
thousands of people demonstrated against<br />
their killings as “human shields”. 39 In the<br />
evening of 12 December 2004, Abdul<br />
Qadir Waza, a resident of Wussan-Pattan<br />
in Baramulla district was critically<br />
wounded after the Rashtriya Rifles<br />
personnel allegedly <strong>for</strong>ced him to check an<br />
Improvised Explosives Devise (IED)<br />
planted by the AOGs. 40<br />
The vigilante group, known as<br />
Ikhwanis, were also responsible <strong>for</strong><br />
extrajudicial executions. One Abdul<br />
Rashid Bhat, a resident of Narbal area,<br />
Srinagar was allegedly picked up by a joint<br />
team of SOG and some Ikhwanis on the<br />
night of 16 February 2004 and later killed<br />
in custody. 41 On 17 February 2004, people<br />
of Narbal area in Srinagar district held<br />
90<br />
demonstrations against the killing of Bhat<br />
by the Ikhwanis. 42<br />
The Jammu and Kashmir State Police<br />
have also been responsible <strong>for</strong> arbitrary<br />
killings.<br />
At 8 am 12 February 2004, Immam<br />
Mohammad Hafiz Pir, Akhtar Hussain and<br />
Pervez Ahamad residents of village Chapri<br />
under Doda district had <strong>report</strong>edly gone to<br />
village graveyard <strong>for</strong> offering prayers. A<br />
team of Special Task Force came to the<br />
graveyard and fired upon them without<br />
any reason. While the local Imam died on<br />
spot, the other two persons received minor<br />
bullet injuries. 43<br />
On 12 February 2004, a police team<br />
headed by Inspector Vijay Paul Singh,<br />
SHO Pacca Danga police station in Jammu<br />
district picked up an elderly transporter of<br />
the area, Manohar Lal Gandotra. He was<br />
taken to the Police Station and was<br />
allegedly tortured to death. The<br />
postmortem was allegedly done without<br />
in<strong>for</strong>ming the family. The doctors, who<br />
conducted the autopsy, were also allegedly<br />
pressurized <strong>for</strong> providing favourable<br />
<strong>report</strong>. The body of the deceased<br />
<strong>report</strong>edly bore injury marks on the head<br />
and lower abdomen. The police <strong>for</strong>cibly<br />
took signatures of the relatives of the<br />
victim be<strong>for</strong>e handing over the dead body<br />
to them <strong>for</strong> last rites. 44<br />
At about 2 am on the intervening night<br />
of 10 and 11 May 2004, some policemen<br />
from Utrosoo police station <strong>report</strong>edly<br />
barged into the house of Abdul Rashid<br />
Khan at Brari Angan in Anantnag district<br />
posing as Lashkar cadres and demanded