Excelsior Correspondent
SRIANGAR, June 22: A youth, injured in a militant attack in Kashmir’s Sopore town, succumbed to his injuries in a hospital today taking the death toll in the militant firing to two while Sopore Police claimed to have cracked the murder case of the duo.
Police said that Shabir Ahmad Naikoo, a dentist by profession, died in SMHS hospital. Naikoo was injured in a militant attack allegedly orchestrated by a rival of his family with whom they had a land dispute. His uncle Nazir Ahmad Naikoo also died in the attack on Friday night.
Police said that they have cracked the murder case of the duo.Giving details of the case the police said that at about 9 pm last night, masked gunmen barged inside the house of Khazir Mohammad Naikoo at Seeloo, Sopore and fired indiscriminately on the family members killing Nazir Ahmad Naikoo and critically injuring his nephew Shabir Ahmad Naikoo. Shabir received four bullets and was shifted Srinagar hospital where succumbed to his injuries this morning.
“Sopore police registered a case FIR No.: 95/2014 U/S 302, 307 RPC and 7/27 Arms Act and initiated the investigation of the case. The house owner Khazir Mohammad disclosed that during mayhem that followed last night’s attack he was able to identify one of the assailants as Mehraj-u-din Khan alias Raja Khan son of Sardar Mohammad Khan resident of Khan Mohalla, Mundji, Zangire Sopore, who was their relative and with whom their family had a land dispute. Police swung into action and apprehended Raja Khan from his house’, police said.
“During preliminary investigation Khan revealed that a bitter land dispute was going on between the two families and previously a case FIR No.: 169/2011 U/S 307,148 RPC was also registered in police station, Sopore against him and his brothers which is still sub-judice in Baramulla court, police said.
Police said that during the sustained questioning, Khan confessed his involvement in the attack. “In the process of investigation it surfaced that the accused used the services of militants to settle the score with Naikoos. They approached one local HM militant Javaid Ahmad Matoo of Sopore town and in connivance and active participation of militants in the attack murdered Nazir Ahmad Naikoo and his nephew”, police added.
Police said Javaid Matoo is wanted in many militancy related incidents in the area.
Police has launched manhunt to arrest other accused involved in the murder.
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