May 13, 2021
The violent crowd further closed in towards
"We’ve registered an FIR and taken up investigations into the shooting
incident," said Shopian’s SSP Shriram Ambarkar. IT
Stud With Internal An Army convoy came under attack by a stone-pelting mob
in Shopian’s Ganowpora village. The soldiers on board responded by opening fire,
injuring eleven persons.Shopian and some neighbouring areas have been tense
since Wednesday when two militants were killed during a fire fight with the
security forces. Two of them later succumbed whereas the third person has been
operated upon in Srinagar’s Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences", the
police said.The authorities have decided to impose security restrictions under
Section 144 CrPC in Srinagar areas and also in Shopian and Pulwama "as a
precautionary measure" from Sunday morning. (Photo: File | Representational) Two
people were killed and nine others wounded when the Army opened fire at a
stone-pelting crowd in Jammu and Kashmir’s southern Shopian district on Saturday
afternoon.Kashmir’s chief Muslim cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq who is one of the
three leaders on JRL said
It is shame that the Indian rights activists,
humanists and civil society members have turned deaf, dumb and blind to the
butchering of young Kashmiris while as the world human rights watchdogs
callously watch on and do nothing".The J&K police in a separate statement
said the convoy of Army’s 10 Garhwal was on its way from 12 Sector Headquarters
at Balpora to Maspora in Shopian when it came under heavy stone pelting at
Ganowpora. It also said that seven soldiers were injured and eleven vehicles
suffered damage in the mob attack. India, Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar.A local
teenager was also killed and two girls including the sister of one of the slain
militants were critically injured when the security forces fired live ammunition
to disperse protesters near the encounter site. The J&K police has
registered a case and taken up investigations.The Army in a statement issued
here in the evening said that its men had to open fire in self-defence to
prevent the lynching of a JCO by the mob.
The violent crowd further closed in
towards the vehicles and attempted to set them on fire.They said that around 3
pm a convoy of the Army 12 Sector Rashtriya Rifles stationed at nearby Balpora
village passed through the Ganowpora and some local youth hurled stones at it
following which the Armymen on board opened fire at them.The slain youth have
been identified as Javed Ahmed Bhat, 20, and Suhail Javed Lone, 24.The condition
of one of the injured civilians is stated to be critical.The locals said that
soldiers from the Army’s 14 Rashtriya Rifles had come to the village on Saturday
morning to tore down the posters which carried ‘tribute’ to a local
Hizb-ul-Mujahedin militant Firdous Ahmed Lone who was among those killed in
Wednesday’s encounter in neighbouring Chaigund village.Kashmir’s Divisional
Commissioner, Baseer Ahmad Khan, said that he has ordered a magisterial inquiry
into the shooting incident and asked Shopian’s Deputy Commissioner to ensure the
inquiry in completed within three weeks’ time. They caused extensive damage to
these vehicles and tried to set them on fire.Reports said that on Saturday
afternoon an Army convoy came under attack by a stone-pelting mob in Shopian’s
Ganowpora village."The statement further said, "Considering the extreme gravity
of the situation the Army was constrained to open fire in self defence to
prevent lynching of the JCO and burning of Government vehicle by the mob."Due to
this stone pelting some Army personnel were reportedly injured. The crowd
surrounded an isolated portion of the convoy consisting of four vehicles."The
Army said that seven jawans were injured whereas eleven vehicles suffered damage
in the mob attack.The statement said that the Defence Minister assured the Chief
Minister that she would seek a detailed report on the incident and would impress
upon the field formations that mechanisms put in place are strictly adhered to
so that such incidents do not recur in future. Two of them succumbed on way to
or at hospital, the officials said.Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti, enraged over
the incident, telephoned Defence Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, to say that such
incidents only cause setback to the efforts made at political level to bring
about peace and normalcy in the State.The statement said that an Army
administrative convoy was passing through Ganowpora chowk (square) when it came
under "unprovoked and intense stone pelting by a group of 100-120 stone-pelters"
at around 3 pm.A official statement issued in winter capital Jammu said that the
Chief Minister while expressing anguish over the loss of lives in the shooting
incident said that "every civilian killing, notwithstanding how erroneously
made, impairs the political process in the State which has been put on track
after hard work by all political parties". The soldiers onboard responded by
opening fire, injuring eleven persons.It further said, "Within no time, their
numbers swelled to 200-250 persons. The doctors at the district hospital in
neighbouring Pulwama said that Bhat was brought there with a critical head
injury and succumbed soon thereafter. A JCO accompanying the convoy got hit on
the head and fell unconscious suffering serious injury. The mob tried to lynch
the individual and snatch his weapon.The Jammu and Kashmir police has registered
a case against the Army and taken up investigations.The Army said its men opened
fire "in self-defence" and that only after a 250-strong mob tried to lynch a
Junior Commissioned Office (JCO) and snatch his service weapon. The Army
personnel retaliated by firing, in which three persons were injured.‘Joint
Resistance Leadership (JRL)’, an alliance of key separatist leaders, while
accusing the Army of indulging in "genocide" of Kashmiri Muslims has called for
a protest shutdown in the Valley on Sunday. It also released photographs of two
damaged vehicles. Lone injured in the firing incident was declared brought dead
at a government-run health facility in the town of Rajpura
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