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Jalil Andrabi, was a prominent Kashmiri human
rights lawyer and pro independence political activist associated with the Jammu
Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). Andrabi was
allegedly subjected to extrajudicial execution by Indian paramilitary troopers
and renegades in March 1996.[1]
On March 8, 1996, Andrabi was detained in Srinagar by Major Avtar
Singh, of the 35th Rashtriya Rifles unit
of the Indian army. Three weeks later, Andrabi's body was found floating in
the Jhelum River; an
autopsy showed that he had been killed days after his arrest. A case is pending
adjudication in a Budgam court against
Major Avtar Singh.
The body of
forty-two-year-old Andrabi, a human rights lawyer and pro-independence
political activist associated with the JKLF, was found in the Kursu Rajbagh
area of Srinagar on the banks of the Jhelum River on the morning of March 27,
1996. According to press reports, the body was in a burlap bag. According to
eyewitnesses, Andrabi was detained at about 6:00 pm on March 8 by a Rashtriya
Rifles unit of the army which intercepted his car a few hundred yards from his
home in Srinagar. The officer allegedly responsible had fled the country and
was wanted by the Indian government in relation to the killing. India had
issued a warrant for his arrest and an interpol alert.
On June 9, 2012 Avtar
Singh, 47, then living in Selma, California, killed his wife, 3-year-old Jay Singh, and
15-year-old Kinwaljeet "Aryan" Singh, and seriously wounded his
17-year-old son Kanwarpal "Chris" Singh[3] with a handgun. He called police to admit the killings
and then shot and killed himself.[4] The surviving son had severe head injuries. He was
taken off life support in Community Regional Medical Center at
Selma and died on June 14.