In a startling revelation suggesting how Indian army is targeting Kashmiri police personnel of good repute in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, family members and the relatives of slain policeman Ghulam Mohammad Dar have said that he was shot dead by Indian army from the point-blank range and refuted the Indian police’s claim that he was killed by mujahideen.
According to Kashmir Media Service, On October 31, Uzma Gul, 20, was cleaning her house when she heard some gunshots. After speeding up apprehensively, she found her father, Ghulam Mohammad Dar, lying in a pool of blood.
Moments after Dar was shot just outside his home, Indian police took to X (formerly Twitter) saying that the militants shot him. They further said that the area was cordoned off to arrest the assailants.
The attack took place at Wailoo village in Tang-marg area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
However, the family members and the relatives of the slain who spoke to the media refuted their claims saying that he was not killed by the militants, but was killed by the Indian army from the point-blank range.
Uzma said that the moment our dad was shot dead, an army vehicle was passing by and the bullets were fired from that vehicle. “Militants didn’t kill my father. I can vouch for that. He was killed by the army men passing by in that vehicle,” she said.
They said the army has killed their father.
“Normally army men don’t run away after hearing the bullet sounds when they are in bulletproof vehicles. But, they didn’t stop, instead accelerated the vehicles and ran away in seconds,” she added.
She assumed that when Dar was hit with a bullet he immediately drove his bike into a paddy field to take refuge under the sloped ground but the assailant shot him again in his ribs, and then to his heart as well.
Dar, a policeman had been serving the police de-partment for the last twenty-five years. Dar was locally called Gul Soob and known as a good-humoured and amiable person. —KMS
