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| | 1995 foreigners’ abduction | | SHRC summons Gill, Wani | | SRINAGAR, Jul 3: The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) asked for personal appearance of P S Gill the former IGP Kashmir and SSP Ashkoor Wani, warning that otherwise they would face adverse interference of the Commission in an application by two rights groups seeking re-investigation into the 1995 abduction of six foreigners allegedly by Al-Faran militant
outfit.
According to the applicants, a division bench of the Commission has directed the Secretary of the SHRC to write appropriately worded D.O. to all the reporting officers to submit their reports by or before the next date.
“The administrative officer will write fresh reminders to P.S. Gill and Ashkoor Wani impressing upon them that in case their personal responses are not received by the Commission by or before the next date, adverse inference in the matter will be drawn against them. The IG, Crime will be also informed that in case the investigations
conducted and concluded by the Crime Branch is not received in the Commission by or before the next date, coercive orders will be passed,” reads the order passed by the Commission today.
The Commission has further said in its order that proceedings are in a state of status quo. “No reporting officer or P.S.Gill or Ashkoor Wani against whom there were some personal allegations have responded to the communications addressed to them by the Commission. Even the documents pertaining to the investigations conducted by the Crime Branch have not been received. CPO submits that though he too has written necessary letters to the concerned but till date he has not received any reports either from the DGP, IGP Crime, Jammu and
Kashmir, or DC, Anantnag,” reads the SHRC order. The next date of hearing has been fixed on August 7.
On April 17 this year, the Commission sought response from four police officers, including former IGP (Kashmir) PS Gill, to an application by two rights groups seeking re-investigation into the 1995 abduction of six foreigners by Al-Faran militant outfit.
A division bench of SHRC comprising Javaid Kawoos and Rafiq Fida had issued notices to Director General of Police, IGP Crime, Deputy Commissioner Anantnag, former SSP Anantnag Ashkoor Wani and ex-IGP Kashmir P S Gill, who unsuccessfully contested recent assembly
elections in Punjab.
International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice had filed a petition in the SHRC on April 6 seeking a fresh probe into the case. "As part of the ongoing work on the issue of nameless and unmarked graves in Jammu and Kashmir, we request that the case of the four kidnapped persons (foreigners) be considered by the SHRC," the
petition had said.
Paul Wells and Keith Mangan of Britain, Dirk Hassert (Germany), John Childs and Donald Hutchings (US) and Hans Christan Ostro (Norway) were kidnapped by little-known Al-Faran militant group - believed to be a shadow outfit of Harkat-ul-Ansar - from the woods of Pahalgam in 1995.
While children managed to escape in the cover of darkness six days after his abduction, 27-year-old Ostro was killed and his body was located on August 13, 1995. The other four foreigners remain untraced. |
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