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Srinagar: A day after the army claimed to have gunned down a militant in Ganderbal district of central Kashmir, a family approached the police on Thursday (April 2) claiming that it was their son, who had no links to militancy, and alleged he was “killed in cold blood”. The family of Arsheed Mughal, 28, a commerce post-graduate from Chountwaliwar village in Ganderbal’s Lar area, filed a complaint with Ganderbal police, describing the slain youngster as a hardworking man struggling to make ends meet.

The army has claimed that the slain man was a militant and that an AK-56 rifle, three magazines, 67 live rounds and 58 empty AK rounds were recovered from the site of the encounter on the intervening night of March 31 and April 1 in Arahama area of Ganderbal district. However, in its official statement on the encounter, the army did not identify the person who was slain.

Recounting his ordeal, Ajaz Ahmad, a labourer, said that a police team informed him on Wednesday at around 10 am while he was at work that his younger brother Mughal had met with an accident in Srinagar. Ahmad said that he was brought to Srinagar’s police control room where a police official asked him to identify a lifeless body lying in the back of an........

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