SRINAGAR — The bullet-riddled body of a Bihar resident was recovered by police on Friday in Jammu & Kashmir’s Shopian district.
Police said that the bullet-riddled body of a Bihar resident, identified as Ashok Chouhan, was recovered in Wanduna village of Zainpora area in Shopian district.
“The body was sent for completion of medico-legal formalities. A case has been registered in this incident and investigation is underway,” police said.
As per Police, a manhunt has been launched to trace the assassins of the non-local civilian.
Non-local skilled and semi-skilled labourers including masons, carpenters, paddy harvesters and others engaged in different labour-intensive occupations have been attacked by the millitants in Kashmir Valley in the past.
On April 8 this year, millitants barged into an eatery in Shopian district and fired at a non-local taxi driver from Punjab, Paramjit Singh, who was accompanying foreign tourists. The guide sustained three bullet injuries.
Earlier in February, two non-locals from Punjab were shot dead by millitants in the old city of Srinagar. A week later, Jammu and Kashmir police said the millitants, who killed the two non-locals, were arrested in Srinagar and the weapon used in the attack was recovered. –IANS
