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Washington, March 13 (KMS): The US State Department has expressed concern over reported extra-judicial killings of people in custody, disappearances, torture and rape by paramilitary forces and police in Jammu and Kashmir.
The US State Department’s 2009 Human Rights report underlined widespread human rights violations in occupied Kashmir, including encounter killings, extra-judicial killings, disappearances and rapes. The report maintained that on Jan 7, the Indian army ordered a high-level inquiry into the death of Abdur Ahad Reshi, a deaf and dumb man in Veer Saran Pahalgam. On March 7, Jammu and Kashmir police registered a complaint against the Central Reserve Police Force for the killing of Shabbir Ahmad Ahangar in Nowhatta.
The report said that on March 20, the Indian army stated that three soldiers were guilty of killing two civilians on Feb 22 in Bumai Sopore while on March 28, the CRPF admitted that two troopers of the 181st Battalion killed Ghulam Mohiuddin Malik on March 18. On May 18, the army ordered an inquiry into the custodial death of Manzoor Ahmed Beig by the Special Operations Group in Srinagar.
It maintained that on May 29, in Shopian, the bodies of two women were recovered by relatives and police from a stream. The doctors who conducted the post-mortem and the local residents said that Indian troops gang-raped before killing the women. On Sept 13, the authorities ordered a magisterial inquiry into the custodial death of Noor Hussain in Rajouri. 
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