“The Court of Inquiry (CoI) concerned with the incident wherein a civilian was tied to an army jeep is still incomplete. Reports in some sections of the media suggesting that army Major has being given a clean chit are speculative,” said army’s Srinagar-based spokesperson Col Rajesh Kalia. On April 14, a video surfaced on the social media in which a Kashmiri man was seen tied to an army jeep, allegedly as a human shield against stone-pelters. Read | Kashmir man in army jeep video: I queued up to vote, why would I stop others? The government has backed the army, with the country’s top law officer saying in April that the officer-in-charge “did a smart thing and defused a nasty situation”.

Source: Hindustan Times May 15, 2017 15:50 UTC