Srinagar:The Mehbooba Mufti government on Saturday has instituted a magisterial probe into the killing of an Fisheries Department employee in alleged security force firing in Kulgam. Police said the civilian was killed in a cross fire between militants and forces.
The magisterial inquiry will be conducted by Assistant Commissioner Revenue Shahnawaz Ahmed. The government assured protesters that victim’s family will also get the ex-gratia and a job under SRO 43.
The killing of Fisheries Department guard Asadullah Kumhar sparked a massive protest in his native Chancer village of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district.
Family members of Kumhar who was killed last night after government forces laid a siege in the village demanded an impartial probe to bring his killers to justice.
Angry villagers who participated in the funeral procession staged massive anti-Army and anti-government protest.
They alleged that Kumhar was killed by government forces.
“He was killed in cold blood by Army when they failed to neutralize the militants. It is a lie that he was killed in a cross fire," a protester said at Vessu where they had blocked the Jammu-Srinagar Highway.
Police earlier said the civilian was killed in cross firing between fleeing militants and forces.
Irate protesters placed the dead body on the highway and stopped traffic at for about two hours.
Kulgam's Deputy Commissioner Showkat Ajaz with SP Sridhar Patil pacified the protesters by declaring magisterial inquiry into the incident.
Following massive protests, the cordon around the village was lifted this morning but militants had managed to give the slip.ALSO READ: CPI(M) Demands Judicial Probe Into Killing of ‘Civilians’ by Security Forces