NEW DELHI, 20 January 2022, (TON): United Kingdom (UK)-based law firm filed an appeal to the London’s Metropolitan Police for arrest of Indian Chief of the Army Staff General Manoj Mukund Naravane and Minister of Home Affairs Amit Anil Chandra Shah for allegedly committing war crimes in the Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

The legal appeal for the arrest of two top Indian government officials under the Universal Jurisdiction principle has been made to British Police following the release of a detailed report by London-based law firm Stoke White, which held them responsible for the torture, kidnapping, extrajudicial killings as well as rape and sexual violence against women in the valley.

The Stoke White Investigations (SWI-unit) report stated “nearly three decades have passed and not a single member of the Indian military has been prosecuted for unlawful conduct in J&K, despite growing evidence against the armed forces.”

The request for the arrest of the Indian army chief and the home minister is based on 2,000 testimonies taken over the past year and new evidence of how Indian security forces have been responsible for their alleged war crimes and abuses in IIOJK.