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The Jammu and Kashmir government has ordered magisterial probes into 30 gun battles that took place in the State last year following a directive from the Ministry of Home Affairs that several encounters for which policemen were recommended for gallantry awards had not been probed.
“According to the National Human Rights Commission guidelines, if anyone from the security forces is being recommended for a gallantry award, the encounter has to be probed by the district magistrate,” a senior official from J&K administration told The Hindu . “In fact, any gun battle in which someone is killed must be probed, but that does not usually happen here.”
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