Rights body accuses members of Indian military, police officers of abuses in Indian-controlled Kashmir

At least 972 members of India's armed forces have been accused of carrying out human rights abuses in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir in a damning report released Wednesday by a rights group.

The report containing summary of 333 cases has named 464 Indian military personnel, 161 paramilitary troopers, 158 policemen, besides 189 counter-insurgents (government backed gunmen) as " perpetrators" in rights abuses like killings, enforced disappearance, torture and rape in the region since 1990.

The list part of a detailed report titled "Structures of Violence - The Indian State in Jammu and Kashmir" was released by two rights bodies - Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons and the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice "- in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir.

"Among the alleged perpetrators is a Major General, seven Brigadiers, 31 Colonels, four Lieutenant Colonels, 115 Majors and 40 Captains from Indian military. Add to this, 54 senior officials of the federal paramilitary forces, a retired Director General of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, one serving Additional Director General as well as two Inspector Generals, two Deputy Inspector Generals, six senior Superintendents of police and three Superintendents," Khurram Parvez, a rights activist and one of the authors of the report said.

New Delhi has imposed the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in the region, which gives extraordinary powers to its troops such as shooting a person on mere suspicion in the region. The Indian army troopers usually face court martial not civilian courts.

The report estimates strength of Indian armed forces in Indian- controlled Kashmir between 656,638 to 750,981.

Officially India does not reveal the actual number of its troops deployed in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Rights groups say that India has deployed more than 700,000 troopers and paramilitary troopers in the region to counter militants fighting in the region.

The report takes a dig at Indian government for it policy of impunity to accused troopers and criticizes Indian judiciary for not being serious in bringing the perpetrators to justice.

"In the report we have identified the structure, forms and tactics of violence of the Indian State in the region," said Kartik Murukutla, a human rights lawyer. "And in the report we have analyzed mass crimes and litigation around mass crimes and reached the conclusion that there can be no expectation of justice from the Indian judicial system."

Murukutla is also the part of the writing team of the report.

The 804-page report has been complied using the information of official documents obtained through the demands under Indian law of Right to Information (RTI), witness testimonies, interviews with parties and others.

Kashmir, the Himalayan region divided between India and Pakistan is claimed by both in full. Since their independence from Britain, the two countries have fought three wars, two exclusively over Kashmir.

A guerrilla war aimed at putting an end to Indian rule is going on in the region between militants and Indian troops since 1989.

The insurgency has claimed thousands of lives since then.

The copy of the report according to Parvez would be submitted to region's Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and all the foreign embassies in New Delhi.

In 2012, the group named 500 members accused of human rights abuses in a similar report.

Indian troops and police are consistently been accused of grave human rights violations in the region.

Separatists in the region are demanding the withdrawal of troops and scrapping of their special powers and have even made it a pre- condition for entering into formal talks with New Delhi. Endi