Click to play videoSrinagar: Abducted, stripped, beaten up and then shot on tape. Their fault: they were indulging in what militants thought was un-Islamic - gambling and dealing with drugs.
The Jammu and Kashmir Police force recovered a CD from militants who shot all the entire torturous event. The police say that it was shot in an apple orchard in Sopore in North Kashmir last year.
Says IGP Kashmir, S M Sahia, "There is a lampoon element in militants who commit these atrocities.''
The police say the militants in the CD have been killed in encounters and three more have been arrested, but that has not stopped moral policing by outlaws.
According to police officials, militants have been regularly interfering with civilian life.
- Kangaroo courts to decide cases of land feuds, divorces, marriages and trade were common in the 90's when insurgency was at its peak.
- The militant outfit, Allah Tigers, was the first to enforce a moral code for Kashmiri men and women, ban cinema, bars and ask women to observe purdah.
- The Dukhtaran-e-millat and the little known militant group Lashkar-e-Jabbar have also been trying to force what they call a decency code upon Kashmiris.
But Kashmiris have not suffered at the hands of militants alone. They consider the men in uniform equally harsh - the latest example being the Ganderbal fake encounters in which innocent civilians were killed and labeled as foreign militants.
Says former Hurriyat chairman, Abbas Ansari, "Indian forces are committing the worst atrocities on Kashmiris. The Government of India should call for a ceasefire and then militants would respond too."
In the end, it's the common Kashmiri who is caught in the middle of two guns - the soldier's and the militants along with this brutal way of infringing on civil rights.
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