SC stops proceedings against Major Aditya in Shopian firing case
New Delhi, Feb 12 (IBNS) : The Supreme Court has on Monday stayed FIR proceedings on Major Aditya and other Army officials in the Shopian firing case, media reports said.
A bench of the apex court comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud issued notices to the government and sought a reply in two weeks.
The state police had filed an FIR against Major Aditya Kumar, an officer in 10 Garhwal Rifles, in connection with the incident.
His father had moved the SC seeking quashing of the FIR against his son and the top court on Friday agreed to hear the matter.
The Supreme Court also restrained the government from taking any coercive action against Army officials allegedly involved in the firing case.
In his petition, Lt Colonel Karamveer Singh, father of Major Major Aditya, had contended his son had been "wrongly and arbitrarily" named in the FIR as the February 27 incident related to an Army convoy on bona fide military duty in an area under the AFSPA, which was isolated by an "unruly and deranged" mob pelting stones causing damage to military vehicles.
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