Seeloo Attack: Injured Dentist Succumbs ABID NABI Srinagar, June 22: (GNS) A dentist who was injured in a firing incident at Seeloo Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Friday evening succumbed to injuries today morning at SKIMS Soura here in Srinagar. A senior police official told GNS that the dentist Shabir Ahmad Naikoo who received three bullets after three masked gunmen opened indiscriminate fire inside a house of Congress activist Khazir Mohammad Naikoo and leaving his son Nazir Ahmad dead at Seeloo Sopore. The injured dentist was immediately shifted to Sub-district hospital Sopore in critical conditions where from he was shifted to SKIMS Soura, the official said, adding that today morning the dentist passed away. “Dentist Shabir Ahmad was running his clinic at Singhpora Pattan from last couple of years after he completed his training in the same field”, Congress Vice Block President and uncle of dentist Khazir Mohammad Naikoo while talking to GNS over phone said. Son of congress activist Nazir Ahmad Naikoo was killed on the spot while Shabir Ahmad was critically injured when gunmen opened indiscriminate fire at them on Friday evening. The congress activist has already said that he recognizes one of the three attackers as Raja Khan who barged inside his house and carried the attack on the fateful night. Deputy Inspector General of Police North Kashmir, Ghulam Hassan Bhat had told GNS that a Pakistani and as well as a local militant were involved in the attack by the family of Mehraj-ud-Din Khan of Mundgi Sopore. DIG said that in February last year, a militant Mohammad Shafi of Zaloora was killed near the residence of Khazir Mohammad Naikoo and the attackers tried to pass-off the incident as the revenge which is actually not the case. According to police, on Khazir Mohammad’s disclosure they arrested Mehraj-ud-Din Khan alias Raja. “During preliminary investigation, Raja revealed that there was a family land dispute between the two families since long”, a police official told GNS, adding that a case FIR no. 95/2014 under section 302, 307 RPC and & 7/27 I A Act have been registered and further investigations taken up in this regard. The official further said that earlier in 2011, a case under FIR no.169/2011 under section 307, 148 RPC was registered against Raja Khan and his brothers after they attacked the same family. The case is sub-judice before session’s court in Baramulla, he added. (GNS) The Daily Kashmir Glory
Posted on: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 05:48:01 +0000
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