Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, June 23: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today warned people of severe backlash if Jammu and Kashmir Police loses its patience over killing of police men.
Terming the lynching of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP), Mohammad Ayub Pandith outside the Jamia Masjid in downtown Srinagar as shameful, she said, J&K Police is one of the best police forces in the country and is showing maximum restraint.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a wreath-laying ceremony of the slain officer here, Mehbooba said: “What can be more shameful than this (lynching of officer). I want to say that Jammu and Kashmir police is one of the best Police forces in the country, they are brave but they are showing maximum restraint (while dealing with law and order situation) because they feel that they are dealing with their own people in J&K.”
“But, for how long? The day their patience wanes away, then, I believe, things will be difficult. I appeal the people that there is still time and we should understand. The police force is our own force, they are our children and such a treatment is shameful,” the Chief Minister said.
Mehbooba said the officer had not gone to the mosque for personal work but was there to protect the lives of the people and fulfill his duty.
The Chief Minister warned people that if police loses patience, they have to face tough time.
“An SHO along with five cops was killed some days back and now this DySP …I appeal to the people that this is a shameful incident, that those who protect you, show patience while dealing with you, but if you behave like this with them, then if they lose their patience, then God forbid, such a time will come when people have to flee after seeing a (police) gypsy on the road,” she said.
Mehbooba termed the lynching of the DySP as the ‘murder of the trust’. “DySP Sahab had allowed his guards to go home on Shab-e-Qadr as it was his own area but the incident that occurred is actually a murder of trust and a shameful act as well,” she added.
While paying tributes to the senior cop, she said that he wasn’t out for his own work but the safety and security of the people. “I appeal the people to stop such things as the incident that occurred is highly shameful,” she added.
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