Machil Fake Encounter Case: Seven Armymen Sentenced to Life

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, Nov 13, 2014:  Seven Armymen including two officers have been sentenced to life imprisonment for their alleged involvement in the 2010 Machil fake encounter case that had triggered a two month-long agitation in the Kashmir Valley.

 

On April 30, 2010, the Army said it had killed three infiltrators in the Machil sector and claimed that they were Pakistani terrorists. The three men who were killed were later identified as Shahzad Ahmad Khan, Riyaz Ahmad Lone and Muhammad Shafi Lone, all residents of Nadihal in Baramulla district.

Their families alleged that the Army lured them to a border area on the pretext of giving them jobs but later killed them and claimed they were terrorists. 

 

Courtesy: NDTV