Srinagar: Contrary to the police claims on killing of 16-year-old boy and a cable operator in Shopian district of south Kashmir, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday condemned the killing of the duo by “unidentified gunmen”.
“Chief Minister strongly condemned the killing of Hilal Ahmad Malik, Cable operator of Shopian and Gowhar Ahmad Dar, 16, of Urpora, Nagbal by unidentified gunmen,” reads an official statement issued here.
“The Chief Minister described the killings as unfortunate, inhuman and dastardly. She said violence has not achieved anything anywhere in the world and our record of past 30 years shows that it has only torn apart social fabric of the societies,” the spokesman said.
Mehbooba also has expressed her condolences with the bereaved families of Malik and Dar, the statement added.
Earlier, Police claimed involvement of two Lashker-e-Toiba militants behind the killing of the 16-year-old boy whose bullet-riddled body was found from Humhona Mulberry in Shopian on Sunday.
The police had also claimed to have identified “LeT” militants who killed the cable network operator Hilal Ahmad Malik.
“The (militants) involved in the attack on cable network owner are Zubair Ahmad Turray son of Bashir Ahmad Turray resident of Bonbazar, Shopian and Umar Nazir Malik alias Khattab son of Nazir Ahmad Malik resident of Malikgund, Shopian,” the police spokesman had said in the statement issued on Sunday.
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