Following orders of the Supreme Court which came last month, the central agency had constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by deputy superintendent of police Subash Chander, for investigating the case of Khursheed Ahmad Chohan, a police constable who was allegedly tortured in custody.
J&K: CBI SIT Arrests Six Police Officials for Brutal Custodial Torture of Policeman - The Wire
Amnesty International has documented details of 715 detainees of Jammu and Kashmir who died in the custody of security forces between 1990-1994. While some of them were allegedly tortured which resulted in their death, many others were shot and killed.
In 2019, a report by the now defunct Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society – a human rights advocacy group based in Srinagar, whose convenor, Khurram Pervez is languishing in jail under anti-terrorism charges – and the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons, documented 432 cases of torture by security forces between 1990-2017 in J&K, of which 70% of victims were civilians.
by Jehangir Ali
21/08/2025