Last Updated: February 26, 2023, 20:13 IST
Deputy Inspector General (DIG), South Kashmir Range, Rayees Bhat mentioned it was a deliberate assault.
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Sanjay Sharma, who labored as an ATM guard, was shot within the chest simply 50 meters away from his residence.
Terrorists on Sunday arrested a 40-year-old Kashmiri Pandit, working as a financial institution guard, in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The native was killed within the morning after he got here out of his home, which was guarded by the police.
Sanjay Sharma, who labored as an ATM guard, was shot within the chest at point-blank vary barely 100 metres from his residence within the Achan space of the south Kashmir district at round 11 am, police mentioned.
He walked 50 meters away from his home, when the terrorists opened fired on him.
Eyewitness advised News18 that Sanjay was grievously injured when he was moved to a neighborhood hospital for therapy the place he succumb to his accidents. He was rushed to a hospital by a passersby.
Mohummad Younis, a neighborhood, whereas narrating the incident mentioned that “people heard gunshot and rushed only to see our brother Sanjay in a pool of blood.”
Sanjay is survived by three youngsters together with two daughter, son and spouse. A neighborhood mentioned that Sanjay used to earn 8 thousand a month as a guard and was requested by police to remain house after killings of minorities had picked up final yr.
“Terrorists fired upon one civilian from minority namely Sanjay Sharma S/O Kashinath Sharma R/O Achan Pulwama while on way to a local market,” the Kashmir Zone police said on Twitter.
Deputy Inspector General (DIG), South Kashmir Range, Rayees Bhat said it was a “planned attack”.
Last year, terrorists carried out nearly 30 attacks on civilians, killing 18 persons including three Kashmiri Pandits, a bank manager from Rajasthan, a woman teacher from Jammu and eight non-local workers.
While locals protested against the killing, political parties including PDP blamed BJP for failing to protect the minorities.
PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti told media that such killings only benefit one political party. “This benefits agenda of one party. BJP has failed to protect whatever minorities are remaining here. They use them to portray normalcy in Kashmir. They are sacrificing them,” PDP chief mentioned.
A Press Communique issued by the LG home learn that the Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, has strongly condemned the dastardly terror assault and the administration is standing robust with the bereaved household.
“My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved household. The administration has given a free hand to the safety forces to cope with the terrorists and we are going to proceed to fight such acts of terrorism firmly and decisively,” the Lt Governor said.
J&K LG had to cancel his scheduled inauguration of Dancing fountain/Aerators today evening, apparently because of Pulwama killing.
A Kashmiri Pandit organisation called Kashmiri Pandit Sangesh Samiti (KPSS) has calls for shutdown tomorrow against the brutalities by terrorists against Kashmiris.
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