 |
| Viola-Odorata seed |
Srinagar, June 02 In Kashmir, after the human rights commission, now police have disclosed to have registered 2,683 FIRs about unidentified bodies in unmarked graves in three districts.
The number of FIRs registered by police is 500 more than the figure given by the human rights commission.
The disclosure was made in response to an RTI (right to access information) application filed by the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) and International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in the disputed territory.
“These are damning disclosures,” Khuram Parvez of IPTK said.
He said this shows how the authorities have been sitting on this information for many years, and trying to obfuscate the truth.” The police said that of the 2,683 FIRs, the largest number — 492 — were registered at Handwara police station. This was followed by Kupwara (396), Trehgam (326), Lalpora (298) and Vilgam (155). All these police stations are in Kupwara district.
In Baramulla district, 110 FIRs have been registered in Sopore police station, and 103 in Baramulla.
The number of unidentified bodies given by the police is 527 more than what was revealed in an independent investigation by the commission.
