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Army indicts 'human shield' officer for 'fraternising' with Kashmiri woman

Gogoi told the JKP that the woman was an "intelligence source" and he was taking her to the hotel to debrief her

Leetul Gogoi
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Leetul Gogoi

Ajai Shukla New Delhi
Major Leetul Gogoi, who created a human rights storm in April 2017 by tying a local Kashmiri to his jeep as a human shield against stone pelting by a violent mob, has severely embarrassed the army again.

Senior army sources have revealed that a military court of inquiry (CoI) has indicted Major Gogoi after the Jammu & Kashmir Police (JKP) detained him on May 23 while he was checking into a Srinagar hotel with a young Kashmiri woman.

Gogoi told the JKP that the woman was an “intelligence source” and he was taking her to the hotel to debrief her. However, the

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