The 1996 elections in Occupied Kashmir were engineered. Renegade militants frequently indulge in human rights violations specially while dealing with protests and strikes. There is nexus between armed forces and the pro government militants. Farooq Abdullah's government has institutionalized the nexus by taking the Sarkari Militants into police force. Militants are also being inducted in central reserve police force and Boarder Security Force.
Indian army has a poor track-record of human rights.
The procedure followed by the armed forces to investigate the cases of human rights violations is not fool proof. The Indian army thinks that those with whom it is fighting are all anti national elements and their complaints of human rights violations are raked with malicious intent to slow down their operations in Jammu and Kashmir. According to Army's estimates, the number of militants in Jammu and Kashmir is not more than 3000 to 4000, out of which only 25 per cent are said to be active. By these estimates presence of 1 to 1.5 lakh of armed forces persons in Jammu and Kashmir justified. The security forces are alleged to be involved in human rights violations.