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Suicide or murder? Soldiers mom gets autopsy report
Mother of Capt Sumit Kohli has been fighting for more than four years to prove that her son, a Shaurya Chakra awardee, was killed by Army officers to stop him from revealing their role in the cold-blooded murders of four porters in a fake encounter in 2005.
Ambiguities in the Court of Inquiry (COI) and autopsy report of the Captain, who the army states committed suicide, has brought hope for his mother.
The wife and mother of the Armys Capt. Sumit Kohli, who was found dead in Jammu and Kashmir, have alleged that their son was killed by his superior officers in order to stop him from revealing their role in murders of four porters in a fake encounter.
In June 2005, Meso Devi, a resident of Chatha hamlet of Jammu and Kashmir, received an anonymous letter in Hindi informing her that her husband Ram Lal had been killed by troops in a fake encounter in Jammu and Kashmirs frontier district of Kupwara along with three others hired by the Army as porters. The letter was signed Aap ka sainik, insaniyat ka pujari (Your soldier, a believer in humanity).
The anonymous letter named Major Vijay Chahar and Colonel Rahul Pandey as being the main accused and said the operation was led by Major Chahar, and that the others involved in the encounter were Naik Jai Singh, and Riflemen Dilip, Jasvir, Adesh Kumar and Madroop Dhaka, all from 18 Rashtriya Rifles and posted in Lolab area of Kupwara.
The Army, immediately after a newspaper reported the content of the anonymous letter, ordered a probe into the alleged fake encounter. Meanwhile, the bodies of the slain men were exhumed in the presence of their families.
More than two years later, the Armys Captain Sumit Kohli, working with the same counter-insurgency 18 Rashtriya Rifles, was found dead at his unit. The Army authorities reported that he had committed suicide on April 30 this year. But the incident is still being probed by the Army.
According to them, being a witness to the gory act, the young officer had vowed not only to expose the murderers but also ensure they were punished for taking the lives of innocent people in anticipation of rewards. He had reportedly assured the victims families that he would help them get justice. It is believed here that Capt. Kohli may have written the anonymous letter to the wife of one of the killed porters.
Who says that my brave son (awarded the Shaurya Chakra gallantry award only a month ago) committed suicide, asked Capt. Kohlis mother, Veena Kohli. She claimed to the newspaper Greater Kashmir over the telephone from her Chandigarh home that she knew her son was killed by Col. Rahul Pandey to hush up the killing of four innocent poor villagers of Jammu. Following the sudden death of her husband a day after Capt. Kohli was cremated, she has vowed to see the killers of my only son behind bars.
The Army says that on April 30, at around 3.20 pm, a gunshot rang out in the army quarters in Lola valley. Doctors who rushed there found Capt. Kohli dead with an AK-47 assault rifle at his side. Both Army and police investigations reached the same conclusion that he had committed suicide.
But Ms Deepika Kohli, Capt. Kohlis wife asked, If they are saying its an AK-47 gunshot then tell me something, how can someones throat and tongue remain intact if he had shot himself in the throat? Seven bullets went through at the same time. And how can there be no bruises or multiple fractures? Tell me, how is that possible?
She added, The Army spokesman is lying, there was no sign of a bullet injury on his face or chin, but a horizontal cut on his throat. Endorsing her mother-in-laws view, she claimed, My Sumit was killed by Colonel Rahul Pandey and three other officers of the same unit.
-via The Times of India and Sulekha.
Mother of Capt Sumit Kohli has been fighting for more than four years to prove that her son, a Shaurya Chakra awardee, was killed by Army officers to stop him from revealing their role in the cold-blooded murders of four porters in a fake encounter in 2005.
Ambiguities in the Court of Inquiry (COI) and autopsy report of the Captain, who the army states committed suicide, has brought hope for his mother.
The wife and mother of the Armys Capt. Sumit Kohli, who was found dead in Jammu and Kashmir, have alleged that their son was killed by his superior officers in order to stop him from revealing their role in murders of four porters in a fake encounter.
In June 2005, Meso Devi, a resident of Chatha hamlet of Jammu and Kashmir, received an anonymous letter in Hindi informing her that her husband Ram Lal had been killed by troops in a fake encounter in Jammu and Kashmirs frontier district of Kupwara along with three others hired by the Army as porters. The letter was signed Aap ka sainik, insaniyat ka pujari (Your soldier, a believer in humanity).
The anonymous letter named Major Vijay Chahar and Colonel Rahul Pandey as being the main accused and said the operation was led by Major Chahar, and that the others involved in the encounter were Naik Jai Singh, and Riflemen Dilip, Jasvir, Adesh Kumar and Madroop Dhaka, all from 18 Rashtriya Rifles and posted in Lolab area of Kupwara.
The Army, immediately after a newspaper reported the content of the anonymous letter, ordered a probe into the alleged fake encounter. Meanwhile, the bodies of the slain men were exhumed in the presence of their families.
More than two years later, the Armys Captain Sumit Kohli, working with the same counter-insurgency 18 Rashtriya Rifles, was found dead at his unit. The Army authorities reported that he had committed suicide on April 30 this year. But the incident is still being probed by the Army.
According to them, being a witness to the gory act, the young officer had vowed not only to expose the murderers but also ensure they were punished for taking the lives of innocent people in anticipation of rewards. He had reportedly assured the victims families that he would help them get justice. It is believed here that Capt. Kohli may have written the anonymous letter to the wife of one of the killed porters.
Who says that my brave son (awarded the Shaurya Chakra gallantry award only a month ago) committed suicide, asked Capt. Kohlis mother, Veena Kohli. She claimed to the newspaper Greater Kashmir over the telephone from her Chandigarh home that she knew her son was killed by Col. Rahul Pandey to hush up the killing of four innocent poor villagers of Jammu. Following the sudden death of her husband a day after Capt. Kohli was cremated, she has vowed to see the killers of my only son behind bars.
The Army says that on April 30, at around 3.20 pm, a gunshot rang out in the army quarters in Lola valley. Doctors who rushed there found Capt. Kohli dead with an AK-47 assault rifle at his side. Both Army and police investigations reached the same conclusion that he had committed suicide.
But Ms Deepika Kohli, Capt. Kohlis wife asked, If they are saying its an AK-47 gunshot then tell me something, how can someones throat and tongue remain intact if he had shot himself in the throat? Seven bullets went through at the same time. And how can there be no bruises or multiple fractures? Tell me, how is that possible?
She added, The Army spokesman is lying, there was no sign of a bullet injury on his face or chin, but a horizontal cut on his throat. Endorsing her mother-in-laws view, she claimed, My Sumit was killed by Colonel Rahul Pandey and three other officers of the same unit.
-via The Times of India and Sulekha.