{"id":3259,"date":"2014-06-03T16:47:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T16:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2014-06-03T16:47:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T16:47:09","slug":"afsar-khan-narrates-woeful-tale-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=3259","title":{"rendered":"Afsar Khan narrates his woeful tale of \u2018torture\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> Muhammad Afsar Khan son of Muhammad Muzaffar resident of Binner Sherwaniabad Baramullah and his wife Zahida narrated a woeful tale about army captain\u2019s alleged repression who is posted at\u00a0<em>F-Company<\/em>\u00a0Venkara Binner Baramullah. While displaying his bruised body, Muhammad Afsar Khan, the father of seven daughters told CNS that from past one year 46 Rashtriya Rifles\u00a0<em>F-Company<\/em>\u00a0Captain Balihan\u00a0<em>aka<\/em>\u00a0Major Saleem<em>aka<\/em>\u00a0Gabar Singh is after him and compelling him to act as his informer. \u201cI am a driver by profession and in 1995 I was working for militant outfit\u00a0<em>Al-Baraq<\/em>\u00a0as upper ground worker. I never crossed the border. Like other Kashmiri youth I shunned the path of militancy and started living a peaceful life. Everything was fine till last year,\u201d he said adding that the said army captain for the reasons better known to him called him to his camp and asked him to work for him. He told me that he will give him reward in case, \u201cI help him in nabbing the militants.\u201d He said that both of them will reap benefits. \u201cYou will get rewards and I will get promotion. Shake hands with me without any delay,\u201d the Captain said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: black\">\u201cMy refusal infuriated him and from that day he started harassing me and my family on the one or the other pretext. Why should I act as an Army informer for a petty sum? I don\u2019t want to get killed because I have seven daughters,\u201d Afsar said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: black\">He said in January this year Captain Balihan picked him up and interrogated him. \u201cWhen my wife informed the Panch Syed Shah and another respectable citizen Ghulam Muhammad Bhat about my illegal detention, he set me free on the condition that we will not take up the matter with the higher authorities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: black\">Her wife Zahida said that time Captain Balihan assured her that he will never touch her husband again. \u201cI was shocked on May 29 last month when my father informed me that Captain Balihan dragged my husband from the vehicle near Stadium Gate Baramulla and took him along inside the army camp,\u201d Zahid said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: black\">\u201cI was on way to Baramulla to fetch rice when Captain Balihan stopped the vehicle and detained me. He took me inside a dark room. He along with his body guards interrogated me without any reason. The body guards of another Captain Pradhan joined the chorus. I can easily identify them. They forced me take off my all clothes and used all their energy to torture me. It was a nightmare and they continuously interrogated me for four hours,\u201d Afsar said adding that blood oozed out from his ears, nose and mouth. \u201cHave a look over my body and see what they did to me,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: black\">Her wife Zahida said that she spent whole day outside Stadium gate and raised hue and cry the day when her husband was dragged from the vehicle. \u201cI almost become a commodity that fateful day. I continuously knocked at the army gate to get my husband released. Locals who wanted to come close to me to enquire about the matter, were beaten up by army personnel deployed at the gate,\u201d Zahida said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: black\">Afsar said that when his condition deteriorated during interrogation, Captain Balihan\u00a0 handed him over to the local police. \u201cInitially after seeing my condition police refused to take me along but finally they shifted me to Kantabagh hospital and treated me well. \u201cI am thankful to Jammu and Kashmir police for taking care of me,\u201d he said adding that his\u00a0<em>Samsung Galaxy<\/em>\u00a0mobile is still lying with the said Captain. He said that the Captain also snatched Rs 10000 from him during the interrogation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: black\">Muhammad Afsar Khan alleged that during interrogation, Captain Balihan hanged an<em>AK-47<\/em>\u00a0rifle around his neck and a pistol in his hand and while clicking several photographs, told him that, \u201cthis is sufficient proof to dub me as a hardcore militant whenever he needs,\u201d he said and appealed army authorities to take cognizance of the matter and save him from the wrath of the said Captain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: black\">Srinagar based Army spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel N. N. Joshi said that it is all baseless and there is no truth in it. He said it is only an attempt to malign the image of the army. \u201cAfsar Khan was an active OGW whose activities came to light. Based on the inputs, he was apprehended and handed over to police on the same day,\u201d Joshi said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: black\">Deputy Inspector General of Police North Kashmir Range Ghulam Hassan Bhat said that Army had called the said person for questioning. \u201cThey released him on the same day after he was found innocent. If he is all praise for the police then he should have approached the top police brass,\u201d he said adding that he would certainly look into the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Muhammad Afsar Khan son of Muhammad Muzaffar resident of Binner Sherwaniabad Baramullah and his wife Zahida narrated a woeful tale about army captain\u2019s alleged repression who is posted at\u00a0F-Company\u00a0Venkara Binner Baramullah. While displaying his bruised body, Muhammad Afsar Khan, the father of seven daughters told CNS that from past one year 46 Rashtriya Rifles\u00a0F-Company\u00a0Captain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}