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| "Fake" encounter claims Capt Sumit’s life, alleges victims’ families | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 14: Captain Sumit Kohli may have been killed as he knew about the alleged fake encounter of four Jammu porters in the border Kupwara area of Kashmir in 2004 and was about to blow the lid off the whole episode.
Porters -- Bhushan Lal, Ram Lal, Satpal and Ashok Kumar -- were allegedly killed by army in a fake encounter in Lolab area of Kupwara on April 20, 2004.
Capt Kohli of 16 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) was the duty officer at the time of the encounter.
The four porters were picked up by an army officer from the Gandhinagar labour market here on April 12, 2004, and taken to Lolab where they were allegedly killed in a fake encounter on April 20.
After the killing of the porters, an anonymous letter was received by their families at Manguchak here. The family members suspect that the letter was written by Capt Kohli.
"When we visited Kashmir for identification of the bodies, an army officer had told us that the man who wrote the letter to us will also ensure that justice is finally done," Bhushan's father Madan Lal said.
In the letter, the sender identified himself as "Insaaf ka pujari" (a follower of justice). It claimed that the porters were killed by army in fake encounters and held a Colonel and a Major responsible for the deaths.
Madan, who retired from army as Lance Naik, said, "We strongly believe that the letter was written by Capt Kohli."
The 26-year-old captain was found dead with gun shot wounds in his room in the military residential facility in April 2006 on the last day of his posting in the valley.
Madan claimed Kohli was killed because he was to blow the lid off the fake encounter. "Capt Kohli was the man, suspected by his superiors, to have written letters to the family of the slain porters," he asserted.
He said the captain was killed because he knew the truth. And now with defence minister AK Antony ordering a fresh probe into the captain's death, there was a ray of hope among the relatives of the porters.
"The defence minister's order to re-investigate the death of Capt Kohli will also provide us justice as it is linked directly to the killing of our sons," Madan said.
An army Court of Inquiry had, however, ruled that Kohli's death was a case of suicide but his family maintained that he was murdered by senior officers because he knew many things about fake encounters in Kashmir Valley. |
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