In April 2017, the Indian Army came under attack after a picture of a Kashmiri man tied to a jeep, and being used as a human shield by a Army officer, went viral.
Major Nitin Leetul Gogoi of the 53rd Rashtriya Rifles used 36-year-old Farooq Ahmad Dar during polling in the Srinagar Lok Sabha by-election.
There were gamut of reactions from people across the country, with some supporting the officer and the others slamming him. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley went to the extent of saying, “He didn’t harm the man. He used him to control the situation and then let him go.”