3 Corps didn't probe fake encounter, says VK Singh
Source: The Sangai Express
New Delhi, June 01 2012:
Just minutes before handing over the charge of Indian Army to his successor, General VK Singh on Thursday confirmed that he did receive a letter from a serving officer about an alleged fake encounter case in Nagaland's Dimapur district wherein three suspected terrorists were shot dead by an army unit a couple of years ago.
Reacting to the sensational revelation by Headlines Today, Gen Singh said, "When something is written to me, I forward it to the concerned headquarters.
I had forwarded the matter to the headquarters of 3 Corps to investigate and as far as I know investigations have not been done" .
"Everybody is concerned that such a thing happens and no investigation happened...
We are looking into it and the new chain needs to start taking action on it," the outgoing army chief told Headlines Today.
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Headlines Today had brought out a confidential letter of Major T Ravi Kiran of the 3 Corps Intelligence and Surveillance Unit in Nagaland that was allegedly involved in a cold-blooded triple murder.
The unit was under the command of Col G.Srikumar.
Interestingly, the whistleblower wrote the letter to the 3 Corps commander Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag copies of which were also sent to the chief of the army staff and others.
Gen Suhag was already in the line of fire as Gen Singh had recently issued him a show cause notice with a discipline and vigilance ban.
In the letter accessed by Headline Today Major Kiran has alleged that three people were picked up by Major Nector and Lt Rubina Kaur Keer after an operation in Dimapur.
The letter suggests that the suspected terrorists were brought to the unit's officer's mess and then shot dead in March 2010.The letter speaks of the recovery of three decomposed, unidentified bodies from the Assam-Nagaland border in Dimapur shortly thereafter.