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Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, a court in Kupwara district has denied bail to eight policemen, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, in a horrific custodial torture case that rights activists say represents only a fraction of the widespread abuses committed with impunity in the territory.<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, the Principal District and Sessions Judge dismissed the bail pleas of the officers involved in illegally detaining and brutally torturing a fellow policeman, Constable Khursheed Ahmed Chowhan, inside the Joint Interrogation Centre (JIC) in February 2023.<\/p>\n
The case was taken up by the Central Bureau of Investigation on the directions of the Indian Supreme Court after the victim\u2019s wife revealed that her husband had been illegally detained, brutally tortured, and subjected to mutilation of his genitals under the false pretext of a narcotics inquiry.<\/p>\n
The case has laid bare disturbing evidence of what Kashmiri detainees have long described as routine torture chambers run under the cover of Indian state institutions.<\/p>\n
The CBI chargesheet reveals that the constable was unlawfully confined for six days, from February 20 to 26, during which he was repeatedly assaulted and coerced into a forced confession. Medical reports, forensic findings and CCTV footage from inside the JIC substantiate the allegations. CCTV visuals from February 26 show the constable limping in pain, an image that prosecutors said starkly confirms the torment inflicted during illegal custody.<\/p>\n
Those denied bail include DySP Aijaz Ahmad Naik, Sub Inspector Reyaz Ahmad Mir, Special Police Officer Jahangeer Ahmad, Head Constables Muhammad Younis Khan and Tanveer Ahmad Malla, Sergeant Constables Shakir Hussain Khoja and Altaf Hussain Bhat, and Constable Shahnawaz Ahmad Deedad. The charges against them include criminal conspiracy, wrongful confinement, causing hurt and grievous hurt, and using force to extract a confession.<\/p>\n
The prosecution argued that the charged officers\u2014who were themselves entrusted with upholding the law\u2014grossly violated public trust and could influence witnesses if released. The court rejected the defence plea that absence of prosecution sanction or alteration of charges warranted bail, noting that the chargesheet was filed within the statutory period and that no circumstances justify release at this stage.<\/p>\n
Human rights observers say the constable\u2019s ordeal is only one documented case that surfaced because the victim belonged to the police force, adding that thousands of ordinary Kashmiris have suffered far worse without ever receiving justice. They maintain that custodial torture, arbitrary detention and forced confessions remain systemic tools of repression in IIOJK, with countless victims unheard and unrecorded.<\/p>\n
Kashmiris fear that unless accountability mechanisms are enforced internationally, cases like this will continue to surface\u2014each reflecting the iceberg of violence that lies beneath India\u2019s militarised rule in the occupied territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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