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Caste-based discrimination forcing Indian soldiers to commit suicides in IOJ&K
July 07, 2020

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In Occupied Kashmir, caste-based discrimination, insulting attitude of officers and guilty conscience is forcing Indian soldiers to commit suicides.

According to Indian media, a constable from SSB’s 49 Battalion, Hemant Sharma killed an assistant sub-inspector Sandeep Kumar, and later shot himself dead in south Kashmir's Kulgam district.

Officials said there was a heated argument between both.

While another soldier shot himself dead with his service rifle in north Kashmir's Baramulla district.