Attack on Hindu Families in Kashmir

CRPF personnel at the attack site in Srinagar on Monday. (PTI)

HT RoP : Day after attack, police back to guard Kashmir village’s 2 Pandit families The attack on the Kashmiri Pandit, the first such after a gap of five months – when a prominent businessman had been shot in Srinagar – has left a chill in the area.

THERE are only two Kashmiri Pandit families living in Chotigam village of Shopian – the Bhats and a neighbour. When militancy erupted in Kashmir and other Pandits left the Valley, including over a dozen families from Chotigam, the two decided to stay back.

On Monday evening, Anil Kumar Bhat was sitting outside his medical shop when he saw two youths drive up on a motorcycle, and one of them alight and go in. Anil thought they had come to buy some medicines. Suddenly, he says, gunshots punctuated the silence of the sleepy village, and Anil’s brother Bal Krishan Bhat came out screaming. Anil says: “They fired at Bal Krishan with a pistol. They aimed at his head, but he covered it with his arms, and that saved him.”

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