CBI investigating officer DSP Vijay Kumar Shukla appeared before the TADA Court, Srinagar in the case relating to the Sopore massacre of 6 January 1993.The Court directed DSP Vijay Kumar Shukla to provide the full case record – all documents underlying the closure report – on 4 September 2014. It was argued on behalf of the survivors of the Sopore massacre that it is condemnable that the CBI has taken 20 years to file an incomplete closure report without any supporting documents. The case has been listed for 4 September 2014, Pervez Imroz told GNS.
He said that survivors of the 6 January 1993 Sopore massacre had earlier [28 June 2014] filed a protest petition against the closure report filed by the CBI on 4 December 2013 before the TADA court, Srinagar. The survivors have alleged that on January 6, 1993, personnel of the 94th battalion of BSF "carried out an attack in Sopore town that led to the killing of more than 50 civilians, injury to more than a dozen and destruction of more than 500 shops and two dozen houses".
“The Sopore chowk area was burnt down including the roadside areas of Shahabad, Bobimir Sahab, Muslim Peer, Shallapora and Kralteng. Further, Samad Talkies, and the women’s college located near the Sopore chowk were also burnt”, Imroz said.The CBI had filed the closure report on December 4 last year on the grounds that the witnesses examined were unable to identify the BSF personnel involved in the incident and they could not give details of the firing or cross-firing.However, the survivors contested the closure report. The protest petition - seeking further investigations in this case – is a contestation of the States lies and attempts to cover up the Sopore massacre of 1993, Imroze added. (GNS)