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Wednesday, Dec 08, 2004

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Alleged fake encounter, CBI probe sought

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, DEC. 7. The Delhi High Court today issued notices to the Union Home Secretary and the Director-General of the Border Security Force (BSF) on a petition by a constable of the force seeking a CBI inquiry into an alleged killing of a Kashmiri youth in a fake encounter by a Commandant of the para-military force to get promotion.

Issuing the notices, a Division Bench comprising Justice M.K. Sharma and Justice Geeta Mittal asked the chief of the force and the Union Home Secretary to file replies to the plea within four weeks

The Bench will now take up the petition for furthering hearing on February 9 next year.

The Bench also directed the chief of the force to submit all records relating to the alleged fake encounter to the Court on the next date.

The petitioner, Constable Subhash Rathod, through his counsel, B.K. Kulshretha, had alleged in his petitioner that the Commandant, Narender Singh, had killed the youth at Badgam in the Kashmir Valley in the intervening night of September 7 last year.

The Commandant had also sought award for the encounter killing but the BSF authorities, after inquiry, had rejected his claim and put him under suspension, the petition said.

The petitioner, posted in the 42nd Batallion of the Force in Jammu & Kashmir, also sought security for himself saying that he felt threat to his life after filing of the petition.

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