1. Name: Javed Ahmad Malla
2. Age: 19
3. Educational qualifications: 10th (Due to extreme poverty, he was forced to discontinue his studies)
4. Profession: He was working in a bag manufacturing unit in Khonmoh in order to make his both ends meet and to support his parents
5. Economic background / status: Lower class family, poor
6. Date of killing: June 20, 2010
7. Location of killing: Waniyar Noorbagh locality, Shahr-e-Khas (downtown) Srinagar
8. Whether or not he was throwing stones when killed: No
9. Details of killing: Javed Ahmad, a relative of Rafiq Ahmad Bangroo was killed near Noorbagh locality, Shahr-e-Khas (downtown) Srinagar when paramilitary forces fired on the funeral procession of 25 year old Rafiq Ahmad Bangroo, who was beaten to death by the CRPF personnel at Safakadal. Javed Ahmad Malla died on the spot. (6)
10. Eyewitness accounts: According to the eyewitness, Javed Ahmad Malla was one among the people who were carrying the funeral procession of his cousin Rafiq Ahmad Bangroo towards the martyr’s graveyard for funeral. During this procession, people raised slogans to which the troopers and the police striked back with gunshots and he was shot with a bullet in the neck. He was taken to SMHS hospital where he died on the same day. According to the eyewitness the security forces / police used violence without any provocation. (1)
11. Family members account: Javed Ahmad according to his relatives and friends had a very shy nature and he was a very dutiful and submissive son to his parents. It was for his dutiful nature that he left his studies and started working so that he could support his parents at a very little age.
On Saturday, 19th June Javed came home after a couple of weeks. javed’s cousin Fayaz Ahmad Malla said, “ He had planned to visit injured Bangroo at Soura hospital but after the news of death of his cousin came in, he got restless and left home early in the morning to participate in Bangroo’s Nimaz-e-Jinazah (funeral prayers),”. Javed was killed during the Nimaz-e-jinazah when Indian troops opened fire upon hundreds of angry protestors carrying the body of Rafiq Ahmad Bangroo. (7)
Fayaz Ahmad Malla also said, “Javed would never indulge in stone-pelting or any such activity. He put his academic career at stake for the sake of his parents and started working in a garment factory at Khanmoh alongwith his two brothers Manzoor Ahmad and Mehraj-ud-din. He used to stay there and would visit his home once a month,”
Adding to this, another cousin Noor Muhammad, the owner of the factory where Javed was into bag-making says that he will forever regret his decision to let Javed go home. He said, “This is what you call fate. Had I known that Javed was going to never return, the case would have been different. He was an intelligent boy who within no time became the in-charge of my firm,” (2)
12. Other details (mourning/protests/burial):
As per the reports of kashmirlife (3), Javed Ahmad Malla was killed when CRPF/Police used unprovocative force on people who were attending to the funeral procession of Rafiq Ahmad. According to the reports, more than 100 persons were injured in police action on the funeral processions of both Rafiq Ahmad and Javed Ahmad Malla. An eyewitness, Manzoor Ahmad, a resident of downtown Srinagar, said, “Police usually justifies its action by claiming to intervene in a situation getting out of hand. But people are not convinced. “Here if an only son of a person is killed, police will first of all thrash him and humiliate him without caring that a tragedy has already stuck him,” said Manzoor Ahmad, a resident of downtown Srinagar”. Police is accused of viewing every gathering in Kashmir through security prism. “If people gather for any funeral ceremony they will simply swoop down on it by terming them anti-national,” said Mehrajudin, a businessman. “Even Section 144 gives relaxation for funeral ceremonies but the police and CRPF are law unto themselves and they don’t care.” (8)
13. Police/government account:
As per the government and police reports, Javed Ahmad was killed on June 20, last when he was a part of an “unlawful assembly” when he was hit by bullets. The government maintains that the opening of the fire was necessary to prevent the mob from entering the CRPF camp and restoring to arson. “The miscreants dismantled the sentry post of CRPF and attempted to set ablaze a mobile bunker using kerosene oil. The miscreants were asked to desist from the activity but they became furious and began to enter the CRPF camp and police post premises.” (9)
According to the report, tear smoke was used to disperse the miscreants. However, some miscreants forced their entry into the sentry post and attempted to snatch a rifle from the sentry on duty. The sentry fired some rounds to bring the situation under control during which some civilians, CRPF personnel and policemen were injured.
“Later one of the inured namely Javaid Ahmad Malla succumbed to his injuries.” (4)1
According to the report, tear smoke was used to disperse the miscreants. However, some miscreants forced their entry into the sentry post and attempted to snatch a rifle from the sentry on duty. The sentry fired some rounds to bring the situation under control during which some civilians, CRPF personnel and policemen were injured.
“Later one of the inured namely Javaid Ahmad Malla succumbed to his injuries.” (4)1
16. Case developments since the killing: describing the death of Javed Ahmad Malla as “suicidal” the Chief Minister directed the Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Naseema Lanker, to enquire into the killings and submit a report within one week. The report is yet to be made public. (5)
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(Complied By Aamir Wani)
18. Links and references to sources:
http://www.kashmirwitness.org/ushahidi/reports/view/5). http://gregoryfegel.sulekha.com/blog/post/2010/07/youth-killings-by-indian-army-in-kashmir.htm
21. http://www.kashmirlife.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=791:desecrating-the-dead
26. http://www.kashmirlife.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=791:desecrating-the-dead-
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