Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday said the Army had not filed any counter FIR in a firing incident in Shopian district in which civilians were killed.
“A day after the police filed an FIR into the firing incident, the Army filed a report about the incident in a police station. That report has been kept on record with the already filed FIR into this incident,” she told the state assembly.
The clarification followed a statement by former chief minister Omar Abdullah in the Assembly in which he said that since the Army had filed a counter FIR, the state government should constitute a high-level Special Investigation Team to probe the incident.
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Meanwhile, Mehbooba Mufti said the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) could not be revoked given the present security situation in the state.
“There was a time when people would desert villages whenever there was an anti-militancy operation in the area.
{{/usCountry}}“There was a time when people would desert villages whenever there was an anti-militancy operation in the area.
{{/usCountry}}“The bitter truth is that today people from adjacent villages come to throw stones at the security forces during such an operation.
“Time is, therefore, not ripe to revoke AFSPA.”