Major Leetul Gogoi, who had strapped embroidery artisan Dar to a jeep that drove past stone-pelters during elections in Srinagar on April 9, had said he had taken the decision in "a fraction of a second" and had he not done so and fired, many civilian lives would have been lost.
target="_blank">The incident drew widespread condemnation for using a human as a shield against stone pelters.
In an interview, the 26-year-old Kashmiri had said "I am shattered. I was wrong to expect any justice."
Dar, an embroidery artisan, had this question for the person who rewarded the major: "If his son faces a similar treatment at the hands of the officer, I would see whether he will still reward him."
Dar had challenged those who had claimed he was a stone-thrower to prove that he ever picked a stone and he iterates that he was among the few people who voted that day in the Srinagar Lok Sabha by-election.
The International Forum for Justice and Human Rights Jammu and Kashmir (IFJHRJK) has filed a petition in the SHRC against the April 9 incident.
"We filed a petition on April 17 which was admitted by the SHRC and it subsequently served a notice to the Senior Superintendent of Police, Budgam," IFJHRJK chairman M Ahsan Untoo was quoted by news agency PTI.
The police officer had submitted a detailed report along with testimonies of seven witnesses on April 27, confirming that Dar had been used as a "human shield" by the Army, Untoo said
Dar had undergone a medical checkup at the Government Psychiatric Diseases Hospital here and the doctors confirmed that he had developed "psychological problems" following the incident, Untoo said.