New Delhi: Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international rights organisation, has said that the use of torture force by Indian police against innocent people has become a routine in disputed Kashmir between Pakistan and India.
According to Kashmir Media Service, HRW’s South Asia Director, Meenakshi Ganguly, in a report published in New Delhi, said that there was an evidence of discrimination and harassment of Kashmiris by the troops.
The report said that Indian courts and human rights investigators had least interest in gross violations of human rights in the territory. “This is not the first time India has been in the spotlight over torture, despite the country’s domestic laws and international commitments,” it added.
Highlighting the reports of other international rights organisations, it said while quoting a cable released by WikiLeaks that in 2005, the Red Cross told the US embassy in New Delhi about widespread human rights abuses by the troopers in the disputed territory which was later confirmed by the humanitarian group.
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