Srinagar: Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh said the Police is open for correction if anything has gone wrong, hours after J&K Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha ordered a magisterial probe into Hyderpora killings on Thursday,
Earlier, Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha ordered a time bound magisterial probe into Monday’s Hyderpora ‘encounter’ in which, according to the police, ‘a foreign terrorist was killed and three other civilians identified as Altaf Ahmad (owner of the building) where the encounter took place) Dr Mudasir, a dental surgeon who was running a call centre in a rented floor of the building and Aamir, a labourer from Banihal area of J&K were also killed.
Families of the building owner, Altaf Ahmad and Dr Mudasir have demanded their bodies to be returned so that the last rites could be performed.
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The families also challenged the authorities to prove that the two civilians had anything to do with militancy.
All the four persons slain in the Hyderpora encounter were buried by the authorities in north Kashmir Handwara tehsil after the demand of the families to return the bodies was turned down.
However, Dilbag Singh (DGP) told reporters, “We will look into the demands of the families. We are open for corrections if anything has gone wrong. A police probe will also find out what went wrong.
All mainstream politicians, including three former Chief Ministers (Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti), Sajad Lone of the Peoples Conference and Yusuf Tarigami of the CPI-M have demanded an impartial probe into the incident.
