SRINAGAR, Oct 5: The Indian army is probing charges that a group of soldiers butchered four civilians in Kashmir and presented them as Islamist guerillas in the hope of securing military awards, an official said on Wednesday.
Police have also joined the investigation into the allegations that a colonel, a major and 10 troopers gunned down the four men in the northern Kashmiri village of Devar on April 20, 2004 and claimed they were insurgents killed in a firefight.
The probe was launched after the father of one of the slain men, Madan Lal, said he had received an anonymous letter alleging the four were killed
