Terrorists Kill Non-Local in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian, Probe Launched

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Jammu And Kashmir News: A bullet-riddled body of a non-local labourer was discovered by police in the Wandina Area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian on Friday. According to the police, primary investigations suggest terrorists are behind the killing. After a long pause, target killings have again started in Jammu and Kashmir. 

The deceased was identified as Ashok Kumar Chauhan. He was a resident of Bihar’s Bhagalpur. The body was found in a mysterious condition with bullet wounds in a maze crop in Wandina Area of Shopian of South Kashmir early on Friday.

The roommate of the victim said that someone called him early in the morning when we had come to buy corn from the corn shop, and he didn’t return. Later, his body was recovered.

“His name was Ashok Kumar Chauhan. We are actually from Bagalpur, Bihar. Here we live in Sangam. We sell corn nowadays, and daily people come here to buy corn. Today, four-five people came here at around 7am to buy corn, and till 8am we were together. Later, he got a call from somebody saying that come, I will give corn, but when he didn’t return for a long time and didn’t pick up the phone, we searched for him and found his dead body at around 9.30am. He has four five wounds; we can’t tell if they are knife wounds or bullets. He was a poor man who had a wife and three children’s,” the roommate said. 

Speaking about the incident, a senior official said this morning some passersby found a dead body lying near a roadside. Soon a team of police and security forces reached the spot and took the body into their possession. The body is sent for a postmortem, and an investigation is started to ascertain the facts and people behind the killings, he said.

Police say primary investigation and situation suggest that killing is done by terrorists, and we have launched searches too in the area. Non-local skilled and semi-skilled labourers including masons, carpenters, paddy harvesters, and others engaged in different labour-intensive occupations, have been attacked by the terrorists in Kashmir Valley in the past. The incident comes days after Omar Abdullah was sworn in as the new Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.