Army Initiates Court Of Inquiry In July's Shopian Encounter | Read
The army today said it has initiated a high-level Court of Inquiry to probe into an encounter by its troops in which three unidentified "terrorists" were killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district last month. This comes after three families in Rajouri area filed a complaint with the police that their missing sons have been killed in a staged encounter and passed off as terrorists. "As intimated on 11 Aug 2020, a high-level Court of Inquiry into Op Amshipora, Shopian on 18 Jul 2020 is under progress. Statements of key witnesses are being recorded and progress is being monitored closely," the army said in a statement today.
