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Inquiry report into Barakpora firing incident submitted

The one-man commission was appointed by the state government to probe the police firing on a procession that left eight people dead and scores injured in April.

The processionists were demanding that bodies of five persons allegedly killed by soldiers in a fake encounter be exhumed for identification.

The villagers alleged that soldiers arrested and burnt to death five villagers on March 25 and later labelled them as foreign militants responsible for the massacre of 35 Sikhs at Chattisinghpora on March 20.

The bodies were later exhumed and handed over to their relatives.

The authorities suspended the Senior Superintendent of Police and shifted the Deputy Inspector General of Police and deputy commissioner of Anantnag after the firing on the processionists.

Justice Pandian held a number of sittings at the in Anantnag to record the accounts of eyewitnesses and persons who were injured in the police firing.

He also recorded the statement of the Senior Superintendent of Police and other civil and police officials.

UNI

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