Extrajudicial Killings
On August 17, 2004 soldiers picked up two brothers, Nar Bahadur and Ratan Bahadur, from their house, and, allegedly later shot them dead, not far from their home. Two of the soldiers took Ratan’s wife to a nearby cowshed and raped her repeatedly. They also detained another brother, Man Bahadur Budhamagar, keeping him in illegal custody and torturing him for 17 days until he signed a statement saying that the soldiers did not rape his sister-in-law.
Developments
There has been no investigation even after registering the FIR.
On June 5, 2008, the relatives of the victims filed a second mandamus, as well as a contempt of court petition to force the authorities to proceed with the investigations.
On February 8, 2009 the contempt of court petition was quashed after the police informed the court that a preliminary report had been forwarded to the public prosecutor’s office.
On August 18, 2009, a case was filed at the Supreme Court, challenging the decision of the Appellate Court Mahendranagar to quash the contempt of court petition. The case is sub judice in the Supreme Court.
