Srinagar is tense again after another local youth was killed and four others injured when CRPF personnel opened fire to quell a mob which allegedly attacked one of its pillboxes at Noorbagh in central Srinagar on Sunday.
Clashes between agitating groups and policemen are being reported from different localities.
The mob comprised mourners returning from a nearby cemetery after burying 24-year-old Muhammad Rafiq Bangroo, who succumbed in hospital late Saturday night days after allegedly being beaten up by CRPF men.
Hours after the fresh killing, the city’s seniormost police officer, senior superintendent of police Riyaz Bedar, was summarily removed after a high-level meeting chaired by chief minister Omar Abdullah. He was replaced by SSP (counter intelligence) Syed Ashiq Bukhari. The CM also directed Srinagar divisional commissioner Tanveera Jahan to inquire into the incident and report in a week.
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2 porters die in Pak troops’ firing at LoC
Srinagar : Five days ahead of Union home minister P. Chidambaram’s visit to Islamabad, Pakistani troops on Sunday violated the seven-year-old ceasefire on the Line of Control yet again, firing at Indian positions in the Machhil sector of Jammu and Kashmir, killing two porters and injuring two jawans.
Pakistani troops opened fire on Indian posts and positions in Machhil sector, 140 km from here, at around 7.30 am without any provocation, a defence spokesman here said.