Slogans corresponding to ‘Rahul Bhat Amar Rahe’, ‘Pakistan Murdabad’ and ‘BJP Hai-Hai’, rend the air because the mortal stays of Rahul Bhat, who was shot lifeless by terrorists inside his workplace in Budgam , had been cremated in Jammu on Friday.

Rahul Bhat’s spouse and daughter, who had been placing up with him at Sheikhpora migrant colony in Budgam, accompanied the physique because it arrived right here from Kashmir.

The pyre was lit by Bhat’s brother, Sunny, who serves within the police division, at the same time as members of the neighborhood expressed their anger over the barbaric killing and demanded safety for the Kashmiri Pandits dwelling within the Valley. “Kashmiri Pandits should be provided foolproof security. Rahul’s killing was another targeted killing by those who want to promote and establish Ghazwa-e-Hind. This has to be nipped for once and all,” said an angry member at the cremation ground.

Another local Rakesh Bhat said that the Pandits should not be sent back to Kashmir and should rather be kept in safe camps in Jammu. “Rahul’s killing is yet another selective killing of a hapless law-abiding citizen. It has created fear among other Pandit employees in the Valley, who do not feel secure there anymore,” he added.

He said that the government had reduced Pandits to sacrificial goats to be shot at by “gun-weilding maniacs” in Valley.

“I appeal LG Manoj Sinha to wipe out terrorists and their sympathisers. Till this Azadi slogan does not end, Kashmiri Pandits should not return to the Valley, and if they are to return, then they should be given security,” he said.

Bring my son’s killers to justice: Distraught father

Rahul’s father Bitta Jee Bhat said, “My son’s killers must be brought to justice”.

“I want a thorough investigation into how terrorists entered a government office and shot my son dead. The government talks about rehabilitating Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley, but its own Pandit employees are not safe inside government offices,” he added.

In the morning, offended protesters blocked Janipur Road and demanded justice for the household. Preliminary investigation has revealed that two terrorists had been concerned within the heinous crime and so they used pistols for killing Rahul Bhat.

Additional director common of police Mukesh Singh, Jammu divisional commissioner Ramesh Kumar and Jammu district commissioner Avny Lavasa had been current on the cremation floor.

SIT constituted to probe homicide, sufferer’s spouse to get govt job

LG pronounces govt job to Rahul’s spouse, free schooling to daughter

Jammu and Kashmir authorities has constituted an SIT to probe the homicide. Taking to Twitter, lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha introduced that the JK administration will present a authorities job to Rahul Bhat’s spouse in Jammu and monetary help to his household. Free schooling may even be supplied to his daughter.

“A decision has been taken to constitute special investigative team to probe all the aspects of the despicable terror attack. The SHO of the concerned police station has also been attached,” The LG tweeted.

Strong protests erupt in Jammu

Protests towards the focused killing rocked Jammu on Friday, with BJP leaders Ravinder Raina and former deputy CM Kavinder Gupta going through the wrath of offended Kashmiri Pandit members on the cremation floor.

The employees of Dogra Front and Shiv Sena underneath the management of president Ashok Gupta additionally took out a protest rally in Jammu metropolis towards the killing of Bhat. Bajrang Dal activists led by its president Rakesh Bajrangi additionally staged a vociferous protest.

“Rahul had requested the local administration to transfer him to the district headquarters. But despite repeated pleas, he was not transferred. Some people within his office inspired with the terrorists,” stated Gupta.

Raina stated, “I strongly condemn the barbaric killing of Rahul. Those behind this despicable terror attack shall not go unpunished”.

Bhat is the second Kashmiri Pandit to have been killed by terrorists within the final seven months. A distinguished member of the Kashmiri Pandit neighborhood, chemist Makhan Lal Bindroo, was shot lifeless by terrorist on 6 October, 2021.

As many as 14 folks belonging to Jammu and Kashmir’s minority Hindu neighborhood, together with Kashmiri Pandits, have been killed by militants in varied components of Kashmir between August 2019 and March 2022. Those focused included distinguished businessmen, sarpanchs and block growth council members.

There has been a spurt in assaults on non-Muslims and outsiders dwelling in Kashmir for the reason that abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, which accorded particular standing to Jammu and Kashmir, in August 2019. Gupta appealed the LG to type a SIT within the matter as this killing indicated involvement of individuals throughout the tehsildar workplace because the terrorists clearly knew about all the small print of Rahul Bhat.

J&Okay HC Bar Association condemned Bhat’s killing

The J&Okay High Court Bar Association on Friday strongly condemned barbaric killing Rahul Bhat killing in Chadoora and urged the lieutenant governor of the union territory to take stern motion towards subversive parts to curb the menace of terrorism and to make sure peaceable environment in Jammu and Kashmir. An emergent assembly was held underneath the chairmanship of president MK Bhardwaj to sentence the killing of harmless Kashmiri Pandit.