Kreeri, a township in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district, erupted on Tuesday when the locals found the body of a local youth, who was missing after his reported arrest by the police more than two weeks ago, buried at an isolated place in a neighbourhood area.
Reports said that a group of villagers saw the body having been partly uncovered as the area was inundated following heavy rains over the past couple of days. With the word spreading, hundreds of people from neighbouring villages including the parents and other relatives and neighbours of the missing youth rushed to the spot and found that the body was that of 19-year-old student Syed Farakh Bashir Bukhari.
Bukhari, as two witnessed have deposed before a district magistrate, was bundled into a police vehicle during a pro-freedom demonstration at Churoo outside the town of Sopore on July 28.
Several other protesters were also arrested by the police but all of them have either been released or were later traced being lodged in different police stations and detention centres.
Police authorities had, however, denied Bukhari’s arrest.
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Jawan dies in Pak firing
SHUCHISMITA
JAMMU
Aug. 10: In a fresh case of ceasefire violation, an Army jawan was killed in firing from across the border in Mendhar tehsil of Poonch district on Tuesday evening while the security forces recovered 31 kg RDX besides a huge cache of arms and ammunition in the past 24 hours in Poonch and Reasi districts. Sources said that a jawan was hit by a sniper rifle shot from the direction of Pakistan post Kanth complex when he was performing his duty in a bunker along Peer Post, 300 metres short of LoC in Mendhar sector of Poonch district at 5 pm.