{"id":9884,"date":"2017-06-24T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=9884"},"modified":"2017-06-24T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T05:45:00","slug":"kin-failed-identify-dsp-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=9884","title":{"rendered":"Kin failed to identify DSP on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> Deputy Superintendent of Police Mohammed Ayub Pandith, 57, had left his Nowpora home at 8.30 pm for his night duty at Srinagar\u2019s Jamia Masjid, located three kilometres from his home. During the night, when the pictures of an unidentified man, who was lynched outside the mosque, spread on the social media and WhatsApp, the family could not recognise him. \u201cMany in our family had seen the picture, but none could identify him,\u201d said his cousin Mohammad Abdullah Pandit. \u201cAt 5.20 am, we were told to identify the body and everyone was in shock.\u201d Abdullah claimed that it was for the first time after joining the police, Pandith was deployed at Jamia Masjid. The family also received a call from the police at around 3 am inquiring whether Pandith had returned home or not. As the body reached home, the family members wailed and neighbours also assembled to offer condolences. Emotional scenes were seen at his home. He was laid to rest at his native place in Nowpora. The officer is survived by wife, son Danish, who is a businessman, and daughter Sana, who is doing MBBS in Bangladesh. \u201cSana had arrived a few days ago to celebrate Eid and she was to leave on Tuesday,\u201d another family member said. Pandith\u2019s colleagues remembered him as one of the finest officers. \u201cHe was known to be one of the most decent and dedicated officer,\u201d ADGP (Security) Dilbagh Singh said. Pandith had joined the police in 1990 as a Sub-Inspector. After completing his basic training in 1992, he was posted at Pulwama. He was promoted to the Deputy Superintendent of Police\u2019s post in 2013 and was posted with the security wing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tribune News Service <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Deputy Superintendent of Police Mohammed Ayub Pandith, 57, had left his Nowpora home at 8.30 pm for his night duty at Srinagar\u2019s Jamia Masjid, located three kilometres from his home. During the night, when the pictures of an unidentified man, who was lynched outside the mosque, spread on the social media and WhatsApp, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9884","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\/9884","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=9884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884\/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=9884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}