Categorise the Killings

Jodhpur, July 27: Major Surinder Singh the accused in the Siachen ‘Killings’ Case today questioned the method of compilation for assessing the enemy kills by the 5/5 Gorkha Rifles during its Siachen tenure.

Major Singh while cross-examining Col. K.D. Singh the then Commanding Officer of the battalion said that the enemy soldiers, mentioned either as ‘probably wounded’ and ‘probably injured or killed’ in the situation reports, have been considered as ‘killed personnel’.

Pointing at Col. Singh’s right elbow having bandage on it, Major Singh said, “You are injured since last two months. Should we consider you a dead person?” Col. Singh said that he is not injured but is been operated due to an infection. On Monday, nine Situation Reports of the 5/5 GR were produced at the Summary of Evidence (SoE).

According to these SRs, different companies of the battalion had killed eight enemy soldiers. Today Major Singh asked Col. Singh the reason behind contradiction between the figure compiled from the SRs and the figure stated by the CO.

Col. Singh said that some incidents of the situation reports have been repeated as the Special Situation Report and five of the kills mentioned in these special reports have already been mentioned in the normal SRs. Though he accepted that the enemy kills achieved on September 13, were not been included in the compiled figure.