Aakar Patel | After Rajnath's vow, will Army give justice' to all it wronged?
Deccan ChronicleDefence minister Rajnath Singh visited the families of those Kashmiris killed in Army custody and assured them justice. On May 11, 2006, after investigating the case, the CBI filed murder charges against five serving Army personnel from the 7 Rashtriya Rifles unit in the court of Srinagar’s chief judicial magistrate. In September 2012, over 12 years after the murder of the five civilians in Pathribal, the Indian Army chose to bring the case before the military justice system and began proceedings in a general court-martial. According to the closure report filed in the Srinagar chief judicial magistrate’s court, the Indian Army did not conduct a trial but instead dismissed the charges through a pre-trial procedure known as summary of evidence under Rule 24 of the Army Rules 1954. Two years ago, on December 4, 2021, soldiers from the 21 Para Special Forces Army unit shot and killed six coal miners in Nagaland’s Mon district.
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