STRUCTURES OF VIOLENCE

322 | Structures of Violence
Abdul Hameed. The victim, hearing commotion, went
out to the gate to see what was happening. The
interviewee came inside to wear his slippers and right
then the victim was abducted and taken away.
The neighbors later told the family that there had been
more people besides those two who had knocked at
their door and all of them had been threatened to not to
come out of their homes. The army had also
accompanied those Ikhwans.
Then, the interviewee, along with his relatives and
neighbors, approached Police Station Pattan and
informed them about the incident. But the police ofcer
at that time, Ghulam Rasool [“munshi at the station”],
did not le a First Information Report [FIR] and asked
them to wait till the morning. So they then went out to
look for the victim. The interviewee tried to follow the
lead of some shopkeepers who witnessed the incident
and informed him that the victim had been taken to
Palhallan. So, the interviewee tried to go to the
government gunmen camp in Tantray Mohalla in
Palhallan, but the army stopped him and did not let him
cross Baba Taing Camp. So, he returned home and
waited till morning, as asked by the police personnel.
In the morning of 6 February 1995, Abdul Majeed Khan
and his three neighbours, namely Mohammad Sha
Bhat [son of Ghulam Mohi-ud-din Bhat], Ghulam Nabi
Wani [son of Ghulam Mohammad Wani], and Nazir
Ahmad So [son of Mohammad Ramzan So], again
went to the Pattan police station but weretold that the
Station House Ofcer [SHO] had not yet come. They
went to a nearby market of Pattan and waited for the
SHO. At around 9-9:15 am, they again went to the
police station and saw 3-4 army trucks inside the
premises of the Station. They asked the gatekeeper to
let them meet the SHO, but were informed that the
SHO was in a meeting with the army and would take
time. In the meantime, the victim's relatives also joined
the interviewee.They waited for around an hour and,
after seeing the army trucks leaving the premises,
again approached the police station, and this time met
the SHO. The SHO told the victim's brother to not
worry, as his brother was alive and would return home
in an hour or so.
When they came out of police station, few unknown
people told them that there was some ring at
Palhallan, Khambiyar and the army had come to call
the police, informing them about a dead body. This
dead body had been handed over to the police. Those
people said that the body could be of his brother.
After this, the scene became very chaotic. They then
recovered the body from the police station and took it
to the Jamia Masjid, Pattan for the last rituals. Then,
the body was taken and buried in Martyr's graveyard.
The victim's relatives and neighbours went to the
police station the next day to le a First Information
Report [FIR], but were informed that the army had
already led an FIR. His family did not take the
documents of FIR nor did they le a counter FIR.
The interviewee's brother-in-law was a constable with
Jammu and Kashmir Police at Baramulla and told him
that the FIR registered stated that a pistol was found
from Abdul Hameed, but the interviewee denied this
fact. No compensation was given to the family.
The brother of the victim, Abdul Majeed Khan, gave the
above statement to the IPTK on 9 June 2015.
The witness statement is clear, and cogent evidence is
presented of the abduction and then killing of the
victim. The allegations warrant further investigation
and the accused responsible for the actual killing of the
victim need to be identied. Based on information that
a false FIR was led and the mention of the army in the
above statement, the army appears to have been
involved in the killing.
Case No. 55
Victim Details
Ali Mohammad Dar [Torture, Extra-judicial killing]
Occupation: Government Teacher
Son of: Mohammad Subhan Dar
Resident of: Vigara, Bandipora.
Alleged Perpetrators
1. Bashir Khan, Government Gunman [Ikhwan]
2. Shabir So, Government Gunman [Ikhwan]
3. Sattar So, Government Gunman [Ikhwan]
4. Moinuddin Kazmi, Government Gunman
[Ikhwan]
5. Shaq Pandith, Government Gunman
[Ikhwan]
Case Information
On 8 April 1995 at about 10:00 am Ali Mohammad Dar,
was picked up by a group of about 10-15 armed
Ikhwans, during a raid and search operation at his
residence. The Ikhwan group was headed by Bashir
Khan and included Shabir So, Sattar So, Moinuddin
Kazmi and Shaq Pandith. This group operated under
the main Ikhwan commanders in the area, Javaid
Shah and Usman Majeed, with head quarters in
Nadihal, Brar, and Guroora. They were under the
control of the Indian Army camp at Nadihal and
Papchan.
The above named Ikhwans entered into the room and
red several rounds of bullets in the air. Bashir Khan
and Shabir So tried to physically pick up Ali
Mohammad and drag him out, but the family members
did not allow them to do so. The Ikhwan then shot
several bullets directly into his abdomen, and hurriedly
left the house thinking that the victim was dead.
However the victim was still alive, though bleeding
heavily. When the victim's neighbours and family
members tried to take the severely injured victim to the