J&K encounter: Police blame Army

DEADLOCK: The police and the Army are at loggerheads in Jammu and Kashmir.

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Srinagar: The police and the Army are at loggerheads in Jammu and Kashmir.

The J&K Police have implicated five armymen, including a colonel, in the killing of four civilians in a fake encounter last year.

The Army claims the police have jumped the gun in this case. It has moved an application in a Srinagar court, questioning the police's powers to investigate its men without getting permission from the Union Home Ministry. It however hasn't reacted to the police allegations.

''Was it a clean operation...I would not like to comment on that. Subsequently the body has been exhumed and it has been identified later on after so many months. Because at that point of time, once the Army conducts an operation and if there is a dead body, it is handed over to the civil police and they identify it and give it a burial,'' said Corps Commander Lt Gen A S Sekhon.

The police say they are waiting for further instructions from the court.

''This is a legal matter. We have taken legal action. The investigation is over with the filing of the chargesheet in the court and if there are other any legal matters, we will proceed accordingly,'' said Jammu and Kashmir DGP Gopal Sharma.

Families of the victims killed in fake encounters have pegged hope on this court that justice would be delivered and guilty punished. But the legal wrangles cropping up in the cases has slightly put them off.

Authorities, however, say, it would finally be justice that will triumph.