Militants in the afternoon
of August 10 shot dead
Abdul Hamid Bhat, a retired
Deputy Superintendent
of Police (DSP), when
he was coming out of a
Masjid (mosque)
in Moominabad area of
Batmaloo in Srinagar,
reports Daily Excelsior.
Bhat who retired from
his service in 2011, was
posted as DSP Mahraj Gunj
in Srinagar during the
summer unrest of 2010
during which over 100
youth died across Kashmir.
Islamic Movement of
Kashmir, a lesser unknown
militant outfit has claimed
responsibility for his
killing. A spokesman of
the outfit, Omar Mukhtar,
told a local news agency
that he was actively involved
the killing of youth in
summer agitation of 2010.
The spokesman while justifying
his killing alleged that
he had killed a militant
in early 1990s. |
