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Another armyman admits encounters were fake

JODHPUR, JUNE 5. An armyman informed a military court here today that he enacted fake encounters, reported false gunning down of enemy soldiers and resigned after Maj. Surinder Singh, accused in the case, asked him to do so when the fake killings were exposed.

Nayak Bhuwan Bahadur Thapa said he along with riflemen Yamraj Guru and R.B. Thapa helped construct enemy bunkers that were demolished in the fake encounters filmed by Maj. Singh. Rifleman Shyam Bahadur Thapa was asked to drop himself at the demolished bunker and lie there to be videographed as dead soldier.

Thapa admitted he wrongly reported the killing of an enemy soldier in the August 24 fake encounter and two others in a similar action on September 21.

He said he was personally involved in the August 24 encounter in which he fired two guided missiles at the bunker, which missed the target. The bunker was later demolished by firing a rocket on it. The Armyman said they were made to swear before God that no one would reveal the fake killings.

But Maj. Singh asked him and two others to seek voluntary retirement when the fake killings were exposed and they tendered their resignations in October last. Thapa is the third personnel to inform the court about the encounters in Siachen. Maj. Singh had alleged that he staged fake encounter at the instance of one Col. Singh who in his deposition earlier told the court that the officer facing doom was trying to tarnish his image.

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