Kashmir policemen, army officer arrested
Three policemen and an army officer have been arrested in Indian Kashmir as part of separate investigations into the death of a man in custody and an allegedly faked gunbattle, officials said yesterday.
Last month, Nazim Rashid, a 28-year-old shopkeeper, died after being detained by counter-insurgency police in the northern town of Sopore in connection with an unsolved murder.
The cause of his death was not disclosed, but it resulted in a one-day strike across the Himalayan state and promises from chief minister Omar Abdullah of "swift and exemplary action".
"Two policemen have been arrested and a few others are under the scanner," a police officer told AFP yesterday on condition of anonymity, adding that the arrests were made at the weekend.
He also said authorities had begun investigating a case in which a civilian was killed and then apparently passed off as senior commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group.
Abdullah said a local soldier and a policeman were arrested yesterday for making the security forces believe the civilian was a militant.
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