The encounter in which a top Lashkar-e-Toiba militant was said to have been killed in J&K’s Poonch district on Sunday was allegedly fake and the victim was a mentally challenged civilian.
Jawan Abdul Majeed of Territory Army and Special Police Officer (SPO) Noor Hussain, who picked up the man from Rajouri district and killed him, were arrested Monday. A case of murder has been registered against them, police said.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has ordered an inquiry into the incident. “The law will take its own course in the matter,” he said on Monday.
The Army has also ordered an inquiry and handed over the jawan to the police.
Identifying the deceased as top Lashkar militant Abu Usman alias Adnan of Pakistan, both the police and the army had claimed to have killed him in a gunbattle in the forests at Mehrote.
Jawan Abdul Majeed of Territory Army and Special Police Officer (SPO) Noor Hussain, who picked up the man from Rajouri district and killed him, were arrested Monday. A case of murder has been registered against them, police said.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has ordered an inquiry into the incident. “The law will take its own course in the matter,” he said on Monday.
The Army has also ordered an inquiry and handed over the jawan to the police.
Identifying the deceased as top Lashkar militant Abu Usman alias Adnan of Pakistan, both the police and the army had claimed to have killed him in a gunbattle in the forests at Mehrote.
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