2,683 FIRs on J&K unmarked graves

The J&K Police has admitted that 2,683 FIRs related to unidentified bodies buried in unmarked graves have been registered in different police stations in three border districts of north Kashmir since 1990. The reply to the RTI filed by the International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir (IPTK) comes 10 months after an enquiry report of unmarked graves conducted by the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC), detected 2,156 unidentified bodies buried in 38 graveyards across five districts of north Kashmir. IPTK has now approached the SHRC seeking re-investigation and ascertaining the number of bodies mentioned in FIRs. IPTK has also sought an inquiry into how many FIRs have been lodged in the remaining 17 districts of Jammu and Kashmir.