Download 12 years ago, five men were killed in Pathribal Village in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Official reports stated that military officers were caught in a gun fight and had blown up the hut where the five men were hiding.
The bodies were buried without any post-mortem examination.
But after a five-year investigation, India’s Central Bureau of Investigation told the Supreme Court the fight was staged and had resulted in the deaths of five innocent villagers, not militants as originally claimed.
Following the court ruling, the Indian Army is under pressure to try its officers in a military or civil court.
As Bismillah Geelani reports, the case also sheds new light on a draconian Indian law that grants military officers legal impunity.
