Three men from the district allegedly died in the Indian Army’s custody in December, after being picked up for questioning about an attack on army vehicles.
The next of kin of three civilians from Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, who were allegedly killed in the Indian Army’s custody in December, received job appointment letters and land allotment orders on Sunday.
These were handed to the relatives by Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha “on compassionate grounds”, the governor’s office said in a post on social media platform X.
Under the Statutory Regulatory Order 43 – also known as the Jammu and Kashmir Compassionate Appointment Rules, 1994 – the kin of civilians killed in militant attacks are eligible to be compensated with cash or by receiving a government job, or both.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration had announced in December that the relatives of the three civilians, identified as Safeer Hussain (43), Mohammad Showket (27) and Shabir Ahmad (32), would be compensated.
