Capt Saurabh Kalia’s family and well-wishers have moved the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) seeking justice and trial for the Kargil War hero who was captured, tortured mercilessly and brutally killed by the Pakistani Army over 13 years ago.
The UNHRC monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to which India and Pakistan are parties.
The petitioners — Capt Kalia’s father Dr NK Kalia, Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar and the Flags of Honour Foundation — have urged the United Nations Humans Rights Commission for a full and independent investigation into the torture and death of Capt Kalia and five jawans during the Kargil War in 1999 and sought justice for them.
Capt Kalia and jawans Arjun Ram, Bhanwar Lal Bagaria, Bhika Ram, Moola Ram and Naresh Singh of 4 Jat regiment were the first to officially verify intrusions by Pakistan Army in the Kargil sector. They were on a routine patrol of the Bajrang Post in the Kaksar sub-sector of Kargil on May 6, 1999, when Pakistan Army soldiers fired at them.
Capt Kalia and his men put up a valiant fight, but ran out of ammunition and were captured alive by the enemy and subjected to inhuman torture and killed. Pakistan handed over their badly mutilated bodies 22 days later.
The autopsy report of the Captain and jawans revealed extreme torture, including cigarette burns, eardrums pierced with hot rods and chopped off limbs and private organs before they were finally shot dead.
The petition was filed on December 7 with Juan E Mendez, Special Rapporteur on Torture, Office of High Commissioner of Human Rights, UN Office Geneva. It urges UNHRC has been urged to take appropriate steps to ask the Government of Pakistan to probe the matter and ascertain who was responsible for the torture and death of Captain Kalia. The petition cites from available correspondence, post-mortem reports and also a book authored by the then Army Chief General VP Malik (retd).
“I am supporting this petition to UNHRC to seek justice for the family of Capt Saurabh Kalia who was tortured and shot dead while performing his duty, a clear case of war crime and a violation of the Geneva Convention,” said Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
Article 3 of the Geneva Convention — drawn up after the World War II — clearly states that soldiers who have been detained or have laid down arms shall not be subjected to “murder of all kind, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture, humiliating and degrading treatment, passing of sentences, carrying out of executions”.
Tortured, killed in Pakistan
May 6, 1999: Capt Kalia and five jawans of 4 Jat regiment are the first to officially verify intrusions by Pakistan Army on routine patrol in Kaksar sub-sector of Kargil
Pakistan soldiers fire at them; they put up a valiant fight, but run out of ammunition and are captured alive
June 9, 1999: Pakistan hands over their badly mutilated bodies 22 days after they were captured
The autopsy report of the Captain and jawans reveales extreme torture before they were finally shot dead
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