New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the lynching of a senior police officer marked a "new low" in Jammu and Kashmir and it was "heartbreaking" to see the state "being pushed back several decades" due to the failure of the BJP-PDP government.
"The brutal lynching of deputy SP Md Ayub Pandit marks a new low. Pained beyond words at the horrific incident," said Gandhi on his official Twitter account.
"Heartbreaking to see Jammu and Kashmir being pushed back several decades because of the complete failure of the PDP-BJP government," he added.
A mob lynched the senior police officer in Srinagar, triggering outrage and forcing chief minister Mehmooba Mufti to dub the crime a "murder of trust".
The battered body of deputy superintendent Mohammad Ayub Pandit was recovered on Friday morning outside the Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta area of the Old City, the very spot where he was set upon by a killer mob the night before.
RAHUL GANDHI IN TWITTER
The brutal lynching of DySP Md Ayub Pandith
marks a new low. Pained beyond words at
the horrific incident.
The lynching of Jammu and Kashmir's Deputy Superintendent of Police Mohammad Ayub Pandit by a mob at Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta area of Srinagar has sent shockwaves across the country. Several questions have also been raised in the incident which has been condemned from all quarters.
There may be holes in the story that the officer was killed by devotees who got angry at him for allegedly taking pictures inside the mosque. Army sources have said since he was a local and a police officer, DSP Ayub was the target of extremist forces and the lynching was pre-planned.
A BLOW-BY-BLOW ACCOUNT OF THE DSP'S LYNCHING:
8 pm - DSP Mohammad Ayub Pandit got an order from Jammu and Kashmir Police Headquarters asking him to be on duty at Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta area of Srinagar.
9 pm - The cop reached the mosque for his duty from home which was 3 km away. He was posted at the gate on "access duty" in plain clothes but was armed.
10 pm - Ayub went inside the mosque to offer prayers during which some people spotted the weapon on him and left some devotees angry. However there is another contradictory report which says the policeman was doing surveillance activities inside the mosque.
10:30 pm - The DSP came out of the prayer area of the mosque when he was confronted by other people. One version of the story says that he was found clicking pictures of the mosque with his phone which angered the devotees. Heated arguments ensued and people charged at him. He was identified as a police officer all along since he was a local.
Army sources however say since he was a local and a police officer, DSP Ayub was the target and the lynching was pre-planned.
10:45 pm - His bodyguards fled and in panic he fired. The horrific act of lynching starts.
Contradiction: The guards have told the investigators that they were relieved by the DSP who asked them that it was an important day and they should be with their families. June 23 is the last Friday of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.
This theory is being investigated as guards are not supposed to leave the officer on their own.
11-11:15 pm - Deputy Superintendent Mohammad Ayub Pandit was stripped naked and stoned to death by the mob.
Midnight - Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who delivers sermons at the historic mosque in old Srinagar city's Nowhatta area every Friday after prayers, arrived at the spot.
After midnight - The battered body was handed over to the police which could not identify him.
6 am - Family calls up police that the DSP had not reached back home. Search starts and police zeroes on the dead body. Family identifies it as the DSP's body.
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