SRINAGAR: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, has issued a stern message warning people of the state of consequences if police loses patience.
“This is not how you respond to restraint on the part of the police, Mehbooba said following the lynching of DySP Muhammad Ayoub Pandith in Srinagar.
She went on to say that such incidents do not help the security situation of Kashmir and warned that people are testing the patience of the security forces.
“If this is the result of their restraint it’s going to be very difficult. For how long can this go on? I want to tell people, if this goes on, things may well go back to how they were, when people would run just upon seeing a (police) jeep on the road,” Mehbooba said, according to ANI.
“What could be more shameful than this episode…He (Pandith) was there to protect the life of the people…Police are exercising maximum restraint, people must understand,” Mehbooba said. “There’s still time for people (to change their behaviour), I want to tell them that,” she added.
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By this act of cowardice, the Chief Minister said the perpetrators have brought disrepute to the tolerant and accommodative nature of Kashmiri people. She appealed people in general and members of civil society in particular to rise to the occasion and isolate these criminal elements who are giving Kashmir and Kashmiris a bad name.
Later, the Chief Minister visited District Police Lines, Srinagar where she laid floral wreath on the body of late Mohammad Ayub Pandit. She interacted with the officers of JK Police and family members of the DySP and consoled them on his killing.
Minister for Rural Development Department, Abdul Haq Khan; Minister for Education, Syed Altaf Bukhari; Minister for R&B, Naeem Akhtar; Chief Secretary, B. B. Vyas; DGP, Dr. S. P. Vaid; senior officers of civil administration and Police, family members of the slain officer and a large number of people were present on the wreath laying ceremony.
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