STRUCTURES OF VIOLENCE
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419| Structures of Violence<br />
Case No. 149<br />
Victim Details<br />
Javaid Ahmad Magray [Extra-Judicial Killing]<br />
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Occupation: 12 Standard student<br />
Son of: Ghulam Nabi Magray, Ameena<br />
Resident of: Soiteng [Lasjan], Tehsil Chadoora,<br />
Budgam District<br />
Alleged Perpetrators<br />
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1. Major Srivastava, 119 Infantry Battalion<br />
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[Territorial Army], Assam Regiment , Army,<br />
Camp Soiteng<br />
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2. Lieutenant Verma, 119 Infantry Battalion<br />
[Territorial Army], Assam Regiment, Army,<br />
Camp Soiteng<br />
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3. Subedar Surinder Sinha, 119 Infantry<br />
Battalion [Territorial Army], Assam Regiment,<br />
Army, Camp Soiteng<br />
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4. Havaldar Hamanta Bordoloi, 119 Infantry<br />
Battalion [Territorial Army], Assam Regiment,<br />
Army, Camp Soiteng<br />
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5. Havaldar Naba Ch. Sinha, 119 Infantry<br />
Battalion [Territorial Army], Assam Regiment,<br />
Army, Camp Soiteng<br />
6. Lance Naik [Lance Corporal], Romesh Singh,<br />
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119 Infantry Battalion [Territorial Army],<br />
Assam Regiment, Army, Camp Soiteng<br />
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7. Sepoy S.U. Borbhuiya, 119 Infantry<br />
Battalion [Territorial Army], Assam Regiment,<br />
Army, Camp Soiteng<br />
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8. Sepoy Zakir Hussain, 119 Infantry Battalion<br />
[Territorial Army], Assam Regiment, Army,<br />
Camp Soiteng<br />
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9. Sepoy Ashok Choudary, 119 Infantry<br />
Battalion [Territorial Army], Assam Regiment,<br />
Army, Camp Soiteng<br />
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10. Sepoy David Lalthanmawia, 119 Infantry<br />
Battalion [Territorial Army], Assam Regiment,<br />
Army, Camp Soiteng<br />
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11. Sepoy Bijoy Sinha , 119 Infantry Battalion<br />
[Territorial Army], Assam Regiment, Army,<br />
Camp Soiteng<br />
Case Information<br />
Javaid Ahmad Magray's father states that in the<br />
morning of 1 May 2003 his son was missing from his<br />
room. His bed appeared as if it had not been slept in<br />
the night before. The window in the room was half<br />
open. His bicycle was in the lawn of the house,<br />
suggesting that he had not gone outside the house.<br />
Outside, on the main road, there were many persons<br />
from the army. The army persons denied having seen<br />
the victim. A large crowd gathered concerned about<br />
the victim. They claimed to have heard gunshots at<br />
midnight. There were blood stains, and a tooth, lying<br />
on the ground, encircled by a chalk marking.<br />
Lieutenant Verma told the people concerned for the<br />
victim that he was in the army camp. They<br />
accompanied him to the Camp where Lieutenant<br />
Verma said the victim would be brought out in ve<br />
minutes. But, he then told them that the victim had<br />
been handed over to the police. It seemed that the<br />
only reason that Lieutenant Verma had given them<br />
this information after entering the camp was to ensure<br />
that he would not be questioned repeatedly by the<br />
family and others demanding information.<br />
The people then proceeded to the police station<br />
where they were told that a boy was brought in serious<br />
condition to the police station at 3:00 am and they had<br />
shifted him to Bone and Joints Hospital, Barzulla and<br />
then the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh [SMHS] hospital.<br />
After that the residents of the area went to the hospital<br />
where the victim was undergoing an operation. After<br />
the surgery, the doctors shifted him to Sher-e-Kashmir<br />
Institute of Medical Sciences [SKIMS], Soura where<br />
the doctors declared him brought dead. An autopsy<br />
report conrmed death by shooting. The victim was<br />
shot from a close range, and he was shot in his legs,<br />
shoulders and inside his mouth.<br />
The family of the victim believes that the motive<br />
behind the killing of the victim was that he used to<br />
pass by the camp in the early hours of the morning,<br />
and may have identied someone at the camp as<br />
working with the army. They believe he was taken out<br />
of his room through the window. The family also states<br />
that Subedar Surinder Sinha camped at Soiteng<br />
headed the patrol party that killed the victim.<br />
The army led First Information Report [FIR]<br />
no.63/2003 u/s 307 [Attempt to murder]Ranbir<br />
Penal Code, 1989 [RPC] and 7 [Prohibition of<br />
acquisition/possession/manufacture/sale of<br />
prohibited arms/ammunition]/27 [Punishment for<br />
possessing arms etc. with intent to use them for<br />
unlawful purpose] Arms Act, 1959 at the Nowgam<br />
Police Station on 1 May 2003 that on the<br />
intervening night of 30 April 2003 and 1 May 2003 a<br />
militant had been injured in ring while another<br />
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militant escaped .The FIR, according to the family<br />
of the victim was “misleading and concocted” and<br />
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was led by Major Srivastava of the 119 Battalion<br />
Assam Regiment under the signature of Lieutenant<br />
Verma, the head of the Soiteng Camp. By<br />
communication dated 30 November 2013 from the<br />
Jammu and Kashmir Police it was stated that the<br />
case was closed as not admitted. By<br />
communication dated 22 April 2014 from Jammu<br />
and Kashmir Police a copy of the closure report was<br />
provided.<br />
131 Possibly a part of the Territorial Army, but not expressly stated as such in the documents available.<br />
132 The names of the perpetrators vary from document to document. The above listing is therefore subject to these variations.<br />
133 Information on this FIR was sought through the Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act, 2009 [RTI] on 5 May 2012. By<br />
communication dated 2 June 2012 from the Jammu and Kashmir Police a copy of the FIR was provided. Further information sought<br />
through RTI on 15 October 2013.