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'''Jalil Andrabi''' was a prominent [[Kashmiris|Kashmiri]] human rights lawyer and pro independence political activist associated with the [[Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front]] (JKLF). Andrabi was allegedly subjected to extrajudicial execution by Indian paramilitary troopers and renegades in March 1996.<ref name="NHRC Annual Report 2004-2005">{{cite web|url=http://nhrc.nic.in/Documents/AR/AR-%2004-05%201.pdf|title=National Human Rights Commission, Annual Report 2004-2005, Complaints Before the Commission, Case of Jalil Andrabi, (Case No. 9/123/95-LD) |publisher=NHRC | date=May 23, 2006| format=pdf | page=77/ para. 4.245| accessdate=July 6, 2009}}</ref><br />
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On 8 March 1996, Andrabi was detained in [[Srinagar]] by Major Avtar Singh, of the 35th [[Rashtriya Rifles]] unit of the [[Indian Army]]. Three weeks later, Andrabi's body was found floating in the [[Jhelum River]]; an autopsy showed that he had been killed days after his arrest. A case is pending adjudication in a [[Budgam]] court against Major Avtar Singh.<ref name="NHRC Annual Report 2004-2005"/><ref name="India seeks return">{{cite news|url=https://abc30.com/archive/7987051/|title=India seeks return of accused soldier from US Tuesday|access-date=June 9, 2012|newspaper=ABC Local|date=March 1, 2011|agency=AP|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120625171955/http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news%2Fnational_world&id=7987051|archive-date=June 25, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref><br />
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==The murder of Jalil Andrabi==<br />
The body of 42 year old Andrabi, a human rights lawyer and pro-independence political activist associated with the JKLF, was found in the Kursu Rajbagh area of Srinagar on the banks of the Jhelum River on the morning of March 27, 1996. According to press reports, the body was in a burlap bag. According to eyewitnesses, Andrabi was detained at about 6:00 pm on March 8 by a Rashtriya Rifles unit of the army which intercepted his car a few hundred yards from his home in Srinagar. The officer allegedly responsible had fled the country and was wanted by the Indian government in relation to the killing. India had issued a warrant for his arrest and an interpol alert.{{cn|date=August 2025}}<br />
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== Death of Avtar Singh ==<br />
On 9 June 2012, '''Avtar Singh''', 47, then living in [[Selma, California]],<ref>[https://abc30.com/archive/7987051/ India seeks return of accused soldier from US], abc30.com. Accessed 25 August 2025.</ref> killed his wife, Hervinder Kaur, 36; and two of his three children, Jay Singh (aged 3) and Kinwaljeet "Aryan" Singh (aged 15). The eldest child, 17-year-old son Kanwarpal "Chris" Singh, suffered serious head injuries<ref name="Selma man">{{cite news|last=Jacob|first=Mariana|title=Selma man kills wife, 2 children, and himself|url=https://abc30.com/archive/8695534/|newspaper=ABC Local.go|date=9 June 2012}}</ref> with a handgun. He called police to admit the killings and then shot and killed himself.<ref name="Singh dead">{{cite news|last=Lupkin|first=Sydney|title=California Man Wanted for 1996 Murder Kills Family, Self|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/california-man-wanted-murder-india-kills-wife-children/story?id=16533835#.T9QICbDrrVU|newspaper=ABC World News|date=9 June 2012}}</ref> and was taken off [[life support]] in Community Regional Medical Center at Selma and died on 14 June 2012.<ref name="last dead">{{cite news<br />
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[[Category:Deaths by person in India|Andrabi, Jalil]]<br />
[[Category:Murder in Jammu and Kashmir]]<br />
[[Category:1996 murders in India]]<br />
[[Category:1990s in Jammu and Kashmir]]<br />
[[Category:Indian war crimes in the Kashmir conflict]]<br />
[[Category:Extrajudicial killings by the Indian military]]</div>Kaurjenni51