The Indian government on Tuesday claimed to have killed three people who, it said, were allegedly involved in the Pahalagam incident.

In a statement in the lower house of parliament, Home Minister Amit Shah claimed the three men killed in an encounter on Monday near Srinagar were Pakistani nationals. However, he failed to provide any evidence in this regard.

Amit Shah’s claims came after reports emerged in the Indian media that the Indian army had launched ‘operation Mahadev’ to mask its failures under the operation Sindoor and to offset the public and media pressure on the Modi government.

Under the ‘operation Mahadev’, the Indian army was planning to kill Pakistani nationals languishing in Indian jails in fake encounters and brand them terrorists, the reports said.

As happened in the past, this time too, Amit Shah did not present any independent or impartial evidence to support his claim.

What was presented by him as evidence was highly unreliable.

According to Indian media, Amit Shah identified the slain people as “Sulaiman, Afghani and Jibran.”

Surprisingly, Amit Shah made contradictory claims about the citizenship of these people: on the one hand, he called them Pakistanis, but on the other, he said they were sheltered by local people.

He presented “Pakistani chocolates” and “voting numbers” as evidence.

Shah alleged that rifle cartridges recovered from the site of Monday’s clash matched those used in the Srinagar attack.

He also claimed that the identities of the bodies were verified by local people, who had provided food and shelter to these men before the April massacre — and that it was those same people who recognised them after they were arrested and killed.

According to Amit Shah, the ballistic examination of the weapons allegedly recovered from the dead was confirmed by “six scientists” over a “video call.”

Astonishingly, a country that claims to have sent a mission to the moon, the evidence of firing was verified in a video call.

The announcement of “Operation Mahadev” came at a time when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to address the Lok Sabha and answer questions about the failure of “Operation Sindoor.”