SRINAGAR : The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) said that the custodial killing of Rizwan Asad Pandit due to torture and inhumane treatment is yet another case among hundreds of cases of human rights violations where inhuman, degrading and excessive force has been used on a detainee resulting in his death.
APDP said in the past Association of Parents of Disappeared (APDP) has highlighted the use of torture against detained individuals, which either leads to their death or lifelong physical and psychological ailments.
“In thousands of these cases, individuals have been subjected to enforced disappearance, which is a continuing crime. Till now, nothing has been known of at least 8000+ cases of enforced disappearances in Jammu and Kashmir and APDP has repeatedly demanded their whereabouts and urged the state government to investigate them”, they said.
APDP believes that torture is related to the disappearance, as according to the revelations made by hundreds of family members of victims of enforced disappearances in many of these cases the victims were brutally tortured for information which they didn’t possess and subsequently the torture lead to their death. They alleged, “In order to hide their crimes, the armed forces would forcibly disappear the body of the victim”.( PTK)
