More than a year after a Kashmiri civilian was killed in firing allegedly by the army in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has filed a case in connection with the incident.
The commission has filed a case under 49/9/3/2026-AF following a complaint into the death of Waseem Ahmad Mir, a truck driver from Goripora village of Sopore and the lone bread-earner of his family in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
Mir died in a firing incident in Sangrama locality along the Srinagar-Baramulla highway on February 6 last year when a group of army soldiers opened fire at a “speeding suspicious” truck which had allegedly jumped a security checkpoint.
In a statement at the time, the army said the checkpoint was set up “on a very specific intelligence input about movement of terrorists” in the area and a team of soldiers chased the truck for 23 kilometres before opening fire.
The “shots were fired … at (the) tyres” of the truck, the army statement said.
Mir, who was driving the truck, suffered grievous gunshot injuries and he was taken to the government medical college in Baramulla where doctors declared him dead. The Army hasn’t clarified how Mir suffered those injuries.
Laden with some 800 boxes of apples, the truck was on the way to a fruit market in Kolkata when the incident happened.
