More than a year after a Kashmiri truck driver was shot dead in North Kashmir’s Baramulla, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has registered a case into the incident, marking what lawyers say is the first such action involving the armed forces in the Valley since the abrogation of Article 370.
The Commission has registered the case under No. 49/9/3/2026-AF, following a complaint filed by Delhi-based advocate Tamanna Pankaj over the killing of Waseem Ahmad Mir, a resident of Goripora Bomai in Sopore, Baramulla district.
The complaint was earlier diarised as 2750/IN/2025 in the category of “fake encounter”.
Mir, a truck driver and the sole breadwinner of his family, was killed in February 2025 after security forces allegedly opened fire on his vehicle on the Srinagar–Baramulla highway while he was carrying apple boxes.
Confirming the development, Pankaj told Maktoob that she received an email from the NHRC on Tuesday stating, “NHRC has registered a case no. 49/9/3/2026-AF on the complaint regarding WASEEM AHMAD MIR.”
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