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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.

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