Eight J&K cops sent to CBI custody

Srinagar: Eight policemen, including a DySP, were arrested by CBI for allegedly inflicting brutal and inhuman custodial torture on a fellow policemen and were sent to five days custody by a special court in Srinagar.

CBI took the eight cops into custody on Wednesday night and produced them before court on Thursday in Srinagar. The case concerns the 'custodial torture' of constable Khursheed Ahmad Chohan for six days on suspicion of helping drug peddlers in 2023.

FIR against the police officials was registered on the orders of SC, and CBI had booked deputy superintendent of police Aijaz Ahmad Naiko and five others. Chohan was summoned to the Joint Interrogation Centre, Kupwara, on February 17, 2023, via a signal communication, which did not cite any specific FIR for summoning.

"On February 26, 2023, private parts of Khursheed were cut off, besides iron rods inserted in his private part continuously for six days. Khursheed was subjected to severe torture and red pepper were inserted in his rectum and also given electric shocks," read the complaint. "He was admitted to SKIMS Hospital at 2.48 pm on February 26, 2023, where his dismembered genitalia were brought to the hospital in a separate plastic bag by a sub-inspector, a fact that shocks our conscience," SC had observed while handing over the case to the CBI.