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Exhume unmarked grave in Kashmir: Rights panel
Wednesday July 04, 2012 08:10:40 PM,
IANS
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Srinagar: In a
significant development of far reaching consequences, Jammu and
Kashmir's apex rights panel Wednesday ordered the first exhumation
of an unmarked grave in a border village and DNA matching of its
remains.
The tate human rights commission directed the district magistrate
of north Kashmir's Kupwara district to exhume a body buried in
Kanipora (Kalaroos) village in July 2003 and examine whether it is
that of Mohammad Yusuf Bhat, then aged 14 and a resident of
Anderbugh Lolab village of the same district.
"The district magistrate concerned will order exhumation of the
dead body from the particular grave which in this instant case is
identifiable under the supervision of a magistrate and thereafter,
a DNA test will be conducted," the rights panel said.
"In case the results received match with the parents or relatives
of the subject then the state government/district administration
shall sanction and pay ex-gratia to the next of kin," the panel
said.
"Further the investigation of the missing report which stands
already lodged in the police station Lalpora Kupwara be re-opened
and taken to logical end so that the culprits are shown the doors
of the court", the commission said in its landmark judgement.
The father of the missing boy had filed an FIR with a local police
station alleging that his son had been kidnapped when he had gone
to attend a religious discourse along with two of his friends in
July 2003.
"While two of my son's friends managed to escape from the illegal
custody of their kidnappers, but my son Mohammad Yusuf Bhat was
killed by the army", the father had alleged.
Elders in Kanipora (Kalaroos) village have confirmed to the SHRC
that an unidentified boy was buried in the village graveyard in
July 2003 whose clothes and belongings were later identified by
the victim's father to have belonged to his missing son.
A report filed before the SHRC by the state police had briefly
said the boy had crossed over to the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK)
in 2003 for obtaining training in firearms and was still there.
It must be mentioned that there are hundreds of unmarked graves at
many places in the border areas of Jammu and Kashmir wherein
parents and families of missing persons fear their loved ones
could have been buried after their alleged extra judicial murders
by the security forces.
The state government has said the tradition of marking graves with
tomb stones etc is essentially an urban tradition and scores of
graveyards in Kashmir countryside are full of unmarked graves
which means such graves do not necessarily belong to persons
killed after their forced disappearance.
State Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has earlier welcomed the
decision to undertake the DNA matching of such unmarked graves
where suspicions have been raised that these might contain bodies
of persons killed after their forced disappearances.
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