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Early 
Times, 
25 
July 
2012,
http://www.earlytimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=96807
.
9
. ‘Protest in Valley after Youth Killed in Army Firing’, India TV News,
25  July  2012, 
https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/protest-
valley-youth-killed-army-firing-17126.html
;  Suhail  Ajmal,  ‘Day  3:
Bandipora on Boil; 30 Injured In Fresh Clashes’, Greater Kashmir, 27
July  2012,  https://kashmirglobal.com/2012/07/27/day-3-bandipora-
on-boil-30-injured-in-fresh-clashes-greater-kashmir.html.
10
. Human Rights Watch, ‘Everyone Lives in Fear: Patterns of Impunity
in 
Jammu 
and 
Kashmir’, 
11 
September 
2006,
https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/09/11/everyone-lives-fear/patterns-
impunity-jammu-and-kashmir
;  Tariq  Ali,  Hilal  Bhatt,  Angana  P.
Chatterji, Pankaj Mishra and Arundhati Roy, Kashmir: The Case for
Freedom, Verso, London, 2011.
11
.  Naseer  Ganai,  ‘J&K  Government  Issues  Award  Money  of  Rs  12.5
Lakh  for  Killing  Militant’,  India  Today,  11  February  2016,
https://www.indiatoday.in/mail-today/story/jandk-government-
issues-award-money-of-rs-12-5-lakh-for-killing-militant-308175-
2016-02-11
.
12
. Human Rights Watch, World Report 2016: Events of 2015, 2016, p.
298,
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/world_report_download/wr2
016_web.pdf
.
13
.  Press  Trust  of  India,  ‘Two  Sisters  Shot  Dead  by  LeT  Militants  in
Kashmir’,  The  Hindu,  1  February  2011
; 
Firdous  Syed,  ‘Caught
Between Militants and Forces in Kashmir’, DNA, 9 February 2011,
https://www.dnaindia.com/india/comment-caught-between-
militants-and-forces-in-kashmir-1505203
.
14
. Sheikh Saleem, ‘Aloosa Fake Encounter: Court Cancels Bail of Two
Army  Informers,  Sent  to  Jail’,  Rising  Kashmir,  11  March  2016,
http://risingkashmir.com/news/aloosa-fake-encounter-court-cancels-
bail-of-two-army-informers-sent-to-jail.
15
. Ibid.
16
.  ‘Bandipora  Fake  Encounter  Police  Close  Case,  Indicts  Army
Informer’, Monthly Newsletter of the Public Commission of Human

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Rights, 186, September 2012, p. 5.
17
.  Peerzada  Ashiq,  ‘Army  Orders  Probe  in  Youth’s  Death  as  Police
Hint  at  Troops’  Involvement’,  Hindustan  Times,  31  July  2012,
https://www.hindustantimes.com/chandigarh/army-orders-probe-in-
youth-s-death-as-police-hint-at-troops-involvement/story-
u2zT37KW4dLGYIVf4hVbaK.html
.
18
.  Suhail  Ajmal,  ‘Informer  Hatched  Conspiracy  to  Stage  Encounter’,
Greater 
Kashmir, 
14 
March 
2015,
https://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/more/news/informer-
hatched-conspiracy-to-stage-encounter/
.
19
. Case files, police report, October 2012.
20
.  ‘Bandipora  Fake  Encounter  Police  Close  Case,  Indicts  Army
Informer’, Monthly Newsletter of the Public Commission of Human
Rights, 186, September 2012, p. 5.
21
.  Bashaarat  Masood,  ‘Bandipore  Encounter  Staged,  Informer  Lured
Youth:  Police,’  The  Indian  Express,  30  July  2012,
http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/bandipore-encounter-staged-
informer-lured-youth-police/981221/
.
22
. Ibid.
23
. Ibid.
24
.  Police  final  supplementary  report,  No.2776/5A/012/PSB,  23
November  2012,  cited  in  Suhail  Ajmal,  ‘Police  Close  Bandipora
Fake  Encounter  Case,’  Greater  Kashmir,  14  March  2015,
https://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/more/news/police-close-
bandipora-fake-encounter-case/
.
25
. Structures of Violence: The Indian State in Jammu and Kashmir, The
International  Peoples’  Tribunal  on  Human  Rights  and  Justice  in
Indian-Administered  Kashmir  [IPTK]  and  The  Association  of
Parents of Disappeared Persons [APDP], Srinagar, September 2015,
https://jkccs.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/structures-of-violence-
e28093-main-report.pdf
.
26
.  Suhail  Ajmal,  ‘Informer  Hatched  Conspiracy  to  Stage  Encounter’,