The Baramulla sessions court has remitted the 2010 Machil ‘fake’ encounter case back to the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) at Sopore for complying with the orders of the High Court, which had permitted the Army authorities to try Territorial Army (TA) rifleman Abbas Hussain Shah under the court martial proceedings.
Follow up:
Posting the matter for April 29, the CJM, Sopore, is now expected to issue a formal notice to the Commanding Officer of the concerned TA unit before handing over the custody of Abbas to the Army for subjecting him to general court-martial proceedings.
Abbas is currently in judicial custody and his trial was on in the Baramualla sessions court along with two other civilians accused in the Machil ‘fake’ encounter case.
