Chattisinghpora case: 5 found guilty of fudging DNA
Wednesday, July 23 2003 23:02 Hrs (IST)
Srinagar: Three police officers and two doctors have been found guilty of "fudging" DNA samples of five
innocent civilians, killed by security forces claiming them to be militants involved in Chattisinghpora
massacre in Jammu and Kashmir, by a ministerial sub-committee which recommended "severe
punishment" for them.
Militants gunned down thirty-five Sikhs on March 20, 2000, during the visit of the then US President Bill
Clinton to India.
Faced with a public outcry that those killed, instead of being militants responsible for the
Chattisinghpora massacre, were innocent civilians, the state government ordered a probe into their
killing. The bodies of the victims were exhumed and DNA samples sent for tests.
Media reports from Kolkata and Hyderabad that there were attempts to tamper with the DNA tests led to
another probe and the tests were done afresh in March 2002.
After the Mufti Mohammed Sayeed government came to power in the state in 2002, it constituted the
three-member ministerial team to probe the incident.
PTI
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