STRUCTURES OF VIOLENCE

526 | Structures of Violence
Alleged Perpetrators
1. Mushtaq Sadiq, Superintendent of Police [SP]
Operations, Special Operations Group [SOG]
2. Rakesh, Major, Army, Watergam Camp
Case Information
In 1990, the brother of the victim Raq Ahmad Tantray
went across the line to join the militancy movement.
Since then, the army had been harassing the family
and the victim.
The army of the Hamray camp raided their house
many times and enquired about the brother. Since
1995, the victim was forced to appear in the army
camps at Palhallan, Wusan and SOG Camp Baba
Taing every Sunday. Intelligence Bureau ofcers
Bishnu Pandey and Verghese also called the victim to
Hyderbaig camp. At the camp, the victim came to know
about the name of these ofcers.
Since 1998, the victim and other persons of the village
[anyone whose family members were militants] were
forcibly kept in the camp for a night and made to sleep
there. Then in the morning, the victim and others were
made to sweep the camp and only then were they
allowed to leave. This continued till 2001.
In 2002, at about 9:30 am, the victim was at the shop of
his maternal uncle Ghulam Mohammad Bhat.
Meanwhile, two government gunmen Mohammad
Abdullah Yatoo and Reyaz Sadda passed through the
same road where the shop was situated. There was
also an army camp in the Pandit houses then. One of
them, Mohammad Abdullah Yatoo, was shot on his
head. Nobody could nd out where from the bullet was
red. Then the army also red in the air. The victim and
the uncle ran away from the spot and hid themselves at
Kumar Mohalla. The army raided the same place
where the victim and the uncle were hiding. They were
arrested and brought to the spot of incident again.
There the Deputy Superintendent of Police [DSP]
Operations Rashid Billa grabbed the ear of the victim
and asked him about the killing. Then both the victim
and uncle were taken to Palhallan Camp and were
kept there for 5-6 days before being released.
On the night they were released, at about 11:30 pm,
the SOG of Baramulla raided the house of the victim.
The victim was taken to G-Branch, Matches Factory,
Baramulla. For rst 1-2 days, no torture was done.
After 2 days, the victim was tied to a chair and was
beaten by sticks. SP Operations Mushtaq Sadiq would
beat the victim himself. After beating him, the victim
was electrocuted. When the victim was going out to the
bathroom, SOG personnel beat him till he reached the
bathroom. The victim was released after 16 days and
torture was done to the victim on and off during these
days. Then the victim was brought to police station
Pattan for 5-6 days and was released then.
On the same day when the victim was released, SP
Mushtaq Sadiq was going on a raid to Shalpora,
Palhallan. When he reached Palhallan, he sent the
watchman of the area to call the victim. The SP took
the victim along for the raid. On returning from there,
the SP handed over the victim to Police Station Pattan
and the victim was kept there for 2 days.
On 15 August 2002, the victim and other inhabitants of
Palhallan were forced to hoist Indian Flags on their
shops and houses by the army of Wattergam. Major
Rakesh was along with the army. The Major noticed
that the ag hoisted on the shop of victim's maternal
uncle was not correct. He asked the victim who had
hoisted the ag and told him to bring the ag down. The
victim tried to bring the ag down but he couldn't reach
the height of the ag. The Major abused the victim
verbally and scolded him to bring it down. The victim
jumped and brought the ag down, but the ag fall
down on the road. So the army beat the victim with
sticks, and Major Rakesh slapped the victim 10-15
times. He was trampled by the army and dragged on
the road.
In 2003, the victim was going to his ofce to Sopore in a
bus, but he noticed that he was being followed by a
sumo [the sumo was stopping where the bus stopped
and was trailing the bus till Sopore]. At Sopore, when
the victim alighted from the bus, four boys came out of
the sumo and asked the victim about Huda College;
the victim replied that it was in Pattan. All the four boys
were non-Kashmiris; the victim identied this by their
language and look. The boys took out a pistol and
forced the victim to get into the sumo. They covered
the eyes of the victim and after driving around for 2-3
hours, kept the victim in a water tank, which was in an
army camp. The victim feels that he was kept in Choor
Camp, as there was a water tank in Choor Camp. The
tank was almost 50 meters deep. The victim was
brought down using a ladder. On the rst day in the
tank, the victim was made to drink chili powder water
and was not allowed to sleep, as a bright lamp was
kept on in the tank, which was pointed towards his
face. The victim was kept there for seven days and for
this period the victim was not allowed to sleep.
After this, the victim was referred to Sharifabad camp
for seven days. At both the places, the victim was
asked about his brother's whereabouts. On the
seventh day at Sharifabad camp, an army ofcer told
him that he would be killed the next day. He was told
that his parents would receive a message tomorrow
that their son had been killed while crossing the border.
The victim doesn't know the name of the army person
who said this to victim. On the same night, the victim
was brought to Narbal with his eyes covered at about
12:30 am and was tied there with a tree. Some army
person told the victim that he was going to shoot him
and he asked the victim where he would like to be shot.
The victim replied on the heart. The army left the victim
there, but the victim wasn't aware about it as his eyes
were covered. He was under the threat that he would