New Delhi, May 14 -- Rizwan Asad Pandit, 30, a resident of Pulwama in south Kashmir, is the latest victim of an interrogation centre in Kashmir. On March 17, the Jammu and Kashmir police picked up Rizwan during a raid on his home and reportedly shifted him to Cargo, a counter-insurgency police station and interrogation centre in Srinagar.
Rizwan, after three days in detention, died in the infamous interrogation centre. Among the people in Kashmir, his death is merely seen as yet another addition to a repeated and similar narrative which continues to surface from interrogation centres with the onset of militancy in Kashmir. People recall that in the 1990s, the chances of returning alive from the alleged torture centres - Cargo, Badami-bagh ...