Police forced us to sodomise each other

Conservative Kashmir has slipped into shock after teen boys, arrested for stone-pelting, deposed before the court saying that the cops forced them to “sodomise each other” while in lock-up.

Police had arrested 11 teenaged students, including four minors, for pelting stones at cops in the old city area on October 27. A case was registered against them under Sections 153, 142 and 336 RPC in the police station of SR Gunj.

“When they were produced before the court, they took off their clothes and showed the torture marks to the judge. Some boys also told the court that they were forced to sodomise each other,” said Bashir Sidiq, counsel for the teens.

The boys also moved an application before additional district magistrate Srinagar, Shakti Gupta, detailing the ordeal, and sought direction for medical examination. “The minors, who have been alleged as accused, informed the court that they were forced to sodomise each other by the police. The whole episode was filmed by police officials with their mobile cameras,” Sidiq said in an application moved before the court seeking directions to chief medical officer to conduct a medical examination.

He said the accused were “horrified and not in a position to walk... the treatment they received was worse than Abu Gharib”.