It has been 28 years since the martyrdom of Jalil Ahmed Andrabi, the son of Kashmir and prominent Hurriyat leader.
Andrabi belonged to the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front was the pioneer of human rights and freedom movement.
He was born on January 30, 1960 in the house of Syed Ghulam Qadir Andrabi in Pulwama.
On March 8, 1996, Major Avtar Singh of 5 Rashtriya Rifles imprisoned Jalil Ahmed Andrabi under the pretext of interrogation. Jalil Ahmad Andrabi's dead body was thrown into the river after brutal torture
On March 27, 1996, body of Jalil Ahmed Andrabi was found in the river Jhelum near Kurso Rajbagh in Srinagar, two weeks after the murder. The post-mortem report also confirmed the worst torture
After the uproar in the media, instead of punishing Major Avtar Singh, India let him escape to America.
The extrajudicial killing of Jalil Ahmed Andrabi is a slap on the face of the so-called Indian democracy.
Jalil Ahmed Andrabi has also been given the title of shaheed-e-insaf.
Jalil Ahmad Andrabi was martyred for raising his voice and documenting serious violations of human rights by Indian soldiers in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Jalil Ahmed Andrabi had exposed Indian atrocities and brutality in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir at the Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva.
The family of Shaheed Jalil Ahmed Andrabi is deprived of justice even after 28 years. The struggle will continue till the end of India's usurping, illegal, illegal and immoral occupation of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Wanted Avtar Singh killed his family, himself in U.S
Major (retired) Avtar Singh, who killed his two children and wife before killing himself in US on Sunday, was wanted in a Kashmir court in the custodial killing case of Jaleel Andrabi, a human rights activist.
Singh was responsible of kidnapping and later killing Andrabi, a prominent Kashmiri human rights lawyer and human rights activist, in 1996.
Major Singh, who was then with the 35th Rashtriya Rifles unit of the Army, had detained Andrabi on March 8, 1996 and killed him and later threw his body into the river.
