Jammu and Kashmir Police claims Lashkar, TRF killed 3 BJP workers

A group of gunmen had at around 8 pm on Thursday shot and killed 3 BJP workers

Over 6,000 policemen have lost their life in Jammu and Kashmir since 1989

40 security personnel who have laid down their lives in the line of duty across the Union Territory in past one year.

Several J-K political parties and leaders have condemned the alleged “extrajudicial murder” of the Sopore youth

The persons who were arrested and are being interrogated have been identified as Bilal Ahmad Kuttey and Shahnawaz Ahmad Mir

The hospital sources and witnesses said that 12 of the injured were hit by pellets

Bari, a former district president of the BJP, and his kin were targeted by two gunmen inside their family shop.

A police spokesman said that a case (FIR No 265/2020) under section 13 ULA(P) Act, 505 IPC (public mischief) has been registered.

Singh, then a Deputy Superintendent of Police at the Anti-Hijacking Squad at the Srinagar International Airport, was arrested on January 11.

Singh and another accused in the case Irfan Shafi Mir were granted the relief by the court in a case filed by special cell of Delhi Police.

The encounter began after security forces launched a cordon and search operation.