India | Updated Jun 20, 2007 at 05:24am IST

Price families pay for fake encounters

Sumon K ChakrabartiSumon K Chakrabarti, CNN-IBN

Kukarnag (J&K): Surrounded by the snow-clad mountains, the hamlet of Dhravee, in Kashmir's Kokernag, is in mourning.

One of its residents, 35-year-old Abdul Rehman Padder, was killed in a fake encounter by the Jammu and Kashmir police in Ganderbal.

A carpenter by profession, Padder, was the sole earning member in a family of 12.

"We have been left with no support. I had only one child," said Padder’s mother, Sarah Gulam Rasool.

Padder's wife, Munira is at her wit's end, as she doesn't know who will provide for her and her five young children.

"My son is one-year-old. Should i send him to earn money?" she asked. The family's fight for survival is going to be tougher than ever before.

"They (victim’s family) have nowhere to, there is no one to earn money. They will have to beg now," said the victim cousin, Altaf Hussain Padder.

To calm the rising anger, the J&K police may have arrested a few of their own but nobody is talking about rehabilitating the family of victims of fake encounters and most of them right now are on the verge of starvation.

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