Culture of impunity in Kashmir, with security forces and police always kept above the board and not held accountable for their gross acts of torture, it has always been known, is a systemic pattern that is patronised and encouraged from the top. But a recent news story on the Jaleel Andrabi murder case, ’Avtar Singh: The man who knows too much’ (published in Open magazine and also reproduced by Kashmir Times) unravels the far more dark secrets behind this culture of impunity while confirming our beliefs about the systematic mechanism of protecting the men in uniform for all their acts of repression from any kind of punishment, of earning promotions and other benefits for snuffing lives out of those they were supposed to protect.