The PDP-BJP coalition govt in Kashmir has filed an FIR for murder (IPC Section 302) against our own army for gunning down two anti-nationals who were a part of a mob which was about to lynch an officer in Shopian yesterday. The army has been named in the FIR! Truly Achhe Din for the ISI and Islamabad! What a fantastic achievement!!
The government supporters may say it is the compulsion of the coalition politics which is forcing the party to go against their own army. To which my reply is it’s better to be in opposition rather than be a party to a grossly anti-national act like the filing an FIR against our own army which was only performing its patriotic duty. How do you expect the army to counter terrorism if FIRs are going to be filed against it? Are armymen only meant to be shot, stoned to death and packed in coffins? This is the best way to demoralise the army and make Pakistan happy. The government has been unable to restore even a single Hindu (of the 3 lakhs who were hounded out by Pak-supported Islamists in Kashmir at gunpoint 25 years ago) back in his home in the Valley and here its govt in Srinagar is filing FIR for murder against the army!
Everyone knows that the stone pelters and terrorists are working for Pakistan and want to handover Jammu and Kashmir to the enemy. Nonetheless, our army is charged with murder if these Pakistani proxies are killed. Anyway what else can one expect from the BJP government which asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its order making the screening of the tricolor and playing of the national anthem mandatory in all cinema halls? I demand the immediate withdrawal of the Shopian FIR against the brave jawans of our army.
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S. Balakrishnan is a veteran journalist, the former Bureau Chief of Times of India and a practicing advocate
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