New Delhi, Feb. 3 (PTI): The CPI(M) today expressed shock over incidents of "fake encounters" in Jammu and Kashmir and asked the Centre and State Governments to punish the guilty so that such human rights violations are not repeated.
"The people of Kashmir Valley have every reason to feel outraged ... Every single officer and personnel of the police and the Army responsible for these atrocities must be arrested and tried for murder and abetment of murder," it said.
The fact that such "killings" were motivated by greed for reward and promotions shows the "degeneration" which has set in among some sections of the security forces, the party's Polit Bureau said in a statement.
"The state and the Central government must show by the firm action taken that they will not tolerate any extra-legal actions and violations of human rights by the security forces," it added.
The revelations of "fake encounters" in which innocent people were branded as terrorists and "killed in cold blood" are shocking, the party said, conveying its sympathies to families of the victims.
"The army units involved in false encounters must be withdrawn," it demandedSaturday, February 3, 2007
