{"id":9891,"date":"2017-06-24T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T05:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=9891"},"modified":"2017-06-24T11:22:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T05:52:36","slug":"may-behind-lynching-burn-hell-omar-killing-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=9891","title":{"rendered":"May those behind lynching burn in hell, Omar on killing of cop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong>Condemning the lynching of a police officer in Srinagar, National Conference working president Omar Abdullah on Friday said the people behind the \u201ctravesty\u201d should \u201cburn in hell\u201d.He said the killing of deputy superintendent of police Mohammad Ayub Pandith outside the Jamia Masjid in the downtown area of the city was height of barbarism.\u201cI am personally anguished and devastated by this tragedy. That this happened on the most auspicious night and outside Jamia Masjid is shocking,\u201d he said.\u201cHis death is a tragedy &amp; the manner of his death a travesty. May the people who lynched DySP Pandith burn in hell for their sins,\u201d Omar wrote on Twitter.Expressing shock and anguish over the \u201cdastardly and barbaric\u201d killing, Omar said the killing was the height of barbarism and should be condemned unequivocally by everyone.\u201cI am personally anguished and devastated by this tragedy. That this happened on the most auspicious night and outside Jamia Masjid is shocking. Such heinous elements are the enemies of Kashmiriyat and humanity and should be given the sternest possible sentence as per the law of the land,\u201d he said in a statement.The former chief minister of the state announced a donation of Rs 10 lakh on behalf of the party and also a month\u2019s salary as MLA to the police welfare fund to support families of such martyrs.\u201cWe are all duty-bound to stand with the family of the martyred police officer and also the police department in this hour of mourning and grief,\u201d the NC working president said.He demanded that the culprits be brought to book without delay and given the sternest possible punishment.On the instructions of the working president, NC\u2019s provincial president Nasir Aslam Wani and state spokesperson Junaid Azim Mattu attended the wreath-laying ceremony of the police officer on behalf of the party and paid tributes.Mohammad Ayub Pandith, a deputy superintendent of police, was stripped naked and stoned to death by an irate mob after he allegedly opened fire at a group of people, who caught him clicking pictures near a mosque in downtown area in the early hours of Friday. PTI<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:\u00a0Condemning the lynching of a police officer in Srinagar, National Conference working president Omar Abdullah on Friday said the people behind the \u201ctravesty\u201d should \u201cburn in hell\u201d.He said the killing of deputy superintendent of police Mohammad Ayub Pandith outside the Jamia Masjid in the downtown area of the city was height of barbarism.\u201cI am personally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9891","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\/9891","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=9891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9891\/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=9891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}