J&K parties welcome army action on Major Leetul Gogoi

SRINAGAR: The regional political parties in Jammu and Kashmir have welcomed the indictment of Major Leetul Gogoi for trying to enter into a hotel in Srinagar along with a local woman earlier this year. They hoped that similar steps would be taken in other pending inquiries of human rights violations against Army and take it to a logical conclusion.

Jammu and Kashmir police, who detained Gogoi at the spot and handed him over to the Army, claimed that their initial report established that he was moving outside his operational area and meeting a local woman. “Army initiating disciplinary action against Major Gogoi is a welcome step. Only hope that unlike Pathribal and Machil fake encounters, it is taken to its logical conclusion,” former chief minister and People’s Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti wrote on Twitter.



Her party spokesperson Rafi Mir further explained that action in other cases would bring relief to people, who were extremely upset when Gogoi was decorated after he tied a Budgam resident to bonnet of his jeep.“This is a good signal from the Army saying that they are not hesitant to take action against their own men. This should have happened much earlier.,” ” senior National Conference legislator Ali Muhammad Sagar told ET.