NEW DELHI: Tensions rise in Indian occupied Kashmir (IOK) as a result of the massive boycott of the ongoing by-polls in two Lok-Sabha constituencies. A spokesman for the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference posted footage of a Kashmiri civilian shown strapped to the front of a jeep being driven as part of a convoy by the security forces in Gundipora, Beerwah. Voting in Bagram district’s Gundipora originally took place on Sunday but polls were conducted again at a number of booths on Thursday. The disturbing video uploaded by the NC spokesperson shows a man being used as a ‘human shield’ and lasts 11 seconds, but it is not clear who shot it and when, the license plates of the vehicles cannot be identified but the tactical number 339 is clearly visible in the captured footage and can be traced through a military database. Here’s the video of the Kashmiri boy tied to the front of an Army jeep and used as a human shield in Gundipora, Beerwah. @TimesNow? @NewsX? pic.twitter.com/wW2yns2RN3 — Junaid Azim Mattu (@Junaid_Mattu) April 14, 2017 A Srinagar-based spokesman of the Ministry of Defence, Colonel Rajesh Kalia, said the contents were being analysed and an investigation was going on into the matter. The Israeli Defence Forces in the occupied Palestinian territories uses ‘human shields’ regularly but it is the first time such evidence regarding this act has been seen being done by the Indian army to deal with protests and hostile environment. The Israeli practice is regarded by lawyers as a gross violation of the international humanitarian law and of the Geneva Conventions. If proven true, the use of civilians as a human shield would almost certainly fall foul of Indian law and the constitutional guarantees of right to life. Last year, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, whose Peoples Democratic Party is in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state, told a public rally that the security forces used to use civilians as human shields in the late 1990s: “Back then I would fight with army and police, when they would go for crackdown in villages. They would ask villagers to be in front of them to find militants from a house. People would fear that if the militant fired they would die in between. I have fought against this practice.” The former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, described the incident as “just so shocking” on Friday morning.