Srinagar, May 15: District Magistrate Shopian has ordered an inquiry into the killing of 22-year-old shopkeeper in the south Kashmir district on Sunday.
The young man, Shoib Ahmad Ganie son of Ghulam Mohammad of Turkwangam Shopian, according o police was killed in \u201ccross firing\u201d between militants and joint team of CRPF and SOG Pulwama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRegarding today’s incident at Turkawangam, Shopian, a magisterial enquiry by Additional District Magistrate Shopian has been ordered,\u201d Deputy Commissioner Shopian Sachin Kumar Vaishya said in a message circulated on twitter. \u201cSuitable action under law shall be taken as soon as the report is received,\u201d he said as per GNS, adding, \u201cI want to assure people as District Magistrate that the inquiry would be conducted and the action as warranted under law would be taken.\u201d The District Magistrate however did not divulge if any time frame has been set for the completion of the inquiry. The inquiry was ordered following protests in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c(Militants) fired upon joint patrol party of CRPF\u2019s 182 batallion and SOG of Pulwama near the bridge connecting Litter Pulwama with Turkwangam, Shopian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During exchange of fire between (militants) & our joint team, one civilian namely Shoib Ahmad Ganie son of Ghulam Mohammad of Turkwangam Shopian got injured,\u201da police spokesman had said earlier, according to GNS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe was referred to District Hospital, Pulwama for treatment where he succumbed to injuries,\u201d he said. Militants after brief \u201cchance encounter\u201d managed to slip into nearby orchards. \u201cSearch is still going on,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cCase has been registered and investigated taken up.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Srinagar, May 15: District Magistrate Shopian has ordered an inquiry into the killing of 22-year-old shopkeeper in the south Kashmir district on Sunday.The young man, Shoib Ahmad Ganie son of Ghulam Mohammad of Turkwangam Shopian, according o police was killed in \u201ccross firing\u201d between militants and joint team of CRPF and SOG Pulwama. \u201cRegarding today’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51228","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=51228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}