{"id":24,"date":"2014-04-11T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/bjp-leader-forced-to-pay-money-on-gun-point\/"},"modified":"2014-04-11T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T14:00:00","slug":"bjp-leader-forced-to-pay-money-on-gun-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"BJP leader forced to pay money on gun-point"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><b style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Pulwama:<\/b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> Next time you travel by Kakapora-Pulwama road, beware because you don\u2019t know when unidentified gun touting persons would appear in front of you and force you to pay money. This is what happened to Bhartiya Janata Party District President Pulwama on Friday night.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u201cI was on way to my home located in South Kashmir\u2019s Pulwama district on Friday night. It was 8:30 when two persons in plain clothes stopped my car (JK02T-5020) near Gangoo hamlet and dragged me out of it. One was holding the gun while the other was carrying a rod in his hand,\u201d BJP district president Pulwama Gulzar Ahmed Nengroo said.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;He said that after searching his pockets and purse, they found only Rs 500 and snatched it from him. \u201cThey directed me drove towards nearby ATM and said that they need money to purchase clothes. \u201cI was willing to pay them but fled from the spot after telling them to wait in the car, till he fetches cash from the ATM. I thought they would kill me as they seized some BJP letter pads from me which I was carrying,\u201d Nengroo said.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">He said that after fleeing from the spot he informed the police station Pulwama on phone. \u201cThe police recovered my abandoned vehicle on Saturday morning near Ratnipora,\u201d he said adding that the incident was not first of its kind that occurred near Gangoo Pulwama but last year also some gunmen attacked the relative of a political leader at the same place.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Station House Officer Pulwama Reyaz Ahmed confirmed the incident and said that investigation is going on to nab the culprits. \u201cWe handed over the vehicle that we recovered near Ratnipora to the BJP District president,\u201d he said. (CNS)<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulwama: Next time you travel by Kakapora-Pulwama road, beware because you don\u2019t know when unidentified gun touting persons would appear in front of you and force you to pay money. This is what happened to Bhartiya Janata Party District President Pulwama on Friday night. \u201cI was on way to my home located in South Kashmir\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}