{"id":85,"date":"2005-09-23T03:48:53","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T07:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/09\/23\/ssp-involved-in-pathribal-massacre-i"},"modified":"2005-09-23T03:48:53","modified_gmt":"2005-09-23T07:48:53","slug":"ssp-involved-in-pathribal-massacre-is-reinstated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/09\/23\/ssp-involved-in-pathribal-massacre-is-reinstated\/","title":{"rendered":"SSP involved in Pathribal massacre is reinstated"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After being exonerated by the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation), Senior Superintendent of Police Farooq Khan was reinstated<\/a> on September 14. He had been suspended in 2003 on charges of five fake killings<\/a> in Pathribal in 2000. <\/font><\/p>\n

The Pathribal killings were the joint response of the Indian Army and the police to the Chittisinghpora massacre<\/a>. The Chittisinghpora massacre occurred in March 2000 when thirty-five Sikhs were killed in a village in Kashmir<\/a> by men dressed in Indian Army uniforms. The Indian Army asserted that the killers must have been separatist militants
\ndressed in Army uniforms. A few days later, the Army announced that it
\nhad found the militants responsible for the Chittisinghpora, and
\nclaimed that five burnt and mutilated bodies in Pathribal were those of
\nthe militants.<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

This
\nsparked a demonstration in April by Kashmiri villagers who claimed that
\nthe Army was trying to pass off the bodies of innocent Kashmiri
\ncivilians as those of militants. Central Reserve Police Force and
\nKashmiri police fired on the protestors, killing eight civilians.
\nAlthough the police officers were suspended and a judicial probe found
\nthe CRPF guilty of “excessive firing,” no action was taken against CRPF
\npersonnel. <\/font><\/p>\n

The bodies of the Pathribal victims were eventually exhumed and DNA samples<\/a>
\nwere taken. In 2002, it was reported that the DNA samples were “fudged”
\nin an attempt to cover up for the police officers. Later DNA tests
\nproved that the five killed were innocent Kashmiri civilians.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

The
\nIndian government set up a commission to investigate the matter in July
\n2003 and a CBI probe was also conducted. The commission found two
\ndoctors and three police officers, including SSP Farooq Khan,
\nresponsible for tampering with the DNA samples and recommended “severe
\npunishment” for them. The CBI, however, exonerated SSP Khan, which
\nresulted in his present reinstatement.<\/font> <\/p>\n

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After being exonerated by the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation), Senior Superintendent of Police Farooq Khan was reinstated on September 14. He had been suspended in 2003 on charges of five fake killings in Pathribal in 2000. The Pathribal killings were the joint response of the Indian Army and the police to the Chittisinghpora massacre. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}