LeT militants kill J&K resident hours after kidnapping him from in-laws house

Srinagar: Unidentified gunmen on Tuesday killed a resident Muntazir Ahmad Parray, a night after he was kidnapped by them from the house of his in-laws in Hajin area in Jammu and Kashmir’s northern Bandipore district.

The police blamed the murder on Lashkar-e-Taiba or the ‘Army of the Righteous’ which has been designated as terrorist group by India and the United States.

The police said that Parray was kidnapped at gunpoint from the residence of his father-in-law Farooq Ahmed Parray at Hajan. Later his bullet-riddled corpse was found on the outskirts of the township.

The police said that gunmen barged into the house of the victim’s in-laws on Monday night and opened indiscriminate fire, injuring three of the family members before forcibly taking Parray along.

It said, “At around 10.10 pm, four terrorists who are believed to be affiliated with the Lashkar-e-Taiba barged into the house of Farooq in Parray Mohalla of Hajin and without caring about the life and dignity of the inmates, fired indiscriminately inside the house.” It further alleged, “The terrorists used knives also to cause grievous injuries to wife of the house owner namely Rafeeqa, their daughter Neelofar and his (the house owner’s) brother Hilal Ahmed. Subsequently, the terrorists abducted Farooq’s son-in-law Muntazir Ahmed Parray.”

The police said that Ms. Rafeeqa sustained a firearm wound besides other serious injuries caused by a sharp weapon. Others sustained injuries due to an assault using a sharp weapon, it added.

The police said that militants had killed Farooq’s son Muzaffar Ahmed alias Muzz Nata “ruthlessly” in summer 2017. “He was first decapitated and then thrown his into the river,” it said.