Our little girl had asked him not to go. See what has occurred,” says Sangeeta, the upset spouse of Deepak Chand, a teacher who was shot dead by assailants in the Kashmir Valley on Thursday.
“He had dropped us home in Jammu and got back to Kashmir only a couple of days back. My life and family have been destroyed,” she says.
Chand, an instructor at the Government Boys Higher Secondary School in Eidgah in midtown Srinagar, was taken shots dead at point-clear reach by assailants around 11.15 am exactly when the school had settled down to one more day of online classes. The school head, Supinder Kaur, was likewise killed.
With this, seven regular citizens have been killed by assailants in the Kashmir Valley in five days.
Scores of individuals accumulated at Chand’s home in Patoli region here as his relatives, including his folks, battled to grapple with their misfortune.
The sorrow immediately transformed into outrage for a portion of the relatives.
“The public authority says Kashmiri Hindus can get back to the valley. Deepak had returned to his country as an instructor… Consequently, he got this prize,” Chand’s cousin sibling Ashwani Kumar said.
“They (aggressors) have killed my sibling. He has a 3-year-old girl… The public authority should give us equity,” said Chand’s sibling, Vijay.
Vijay requested that the public authority give security to all Hindus working in the Kashmir Valley before it is past the point of no return.
The relatives said that the spate of regular citizen killings – the most noticeably terrible since Jammu and Kashmir’s extraordinary status under Article 370 was disavowed in August 2019 – helped them to remember the 1990s when minorities, particularly Kashmiri Pandits, were designated by aggressors, setting off their mass migration from the valley.
Chand, a Hindu, and Kaur, a Srinagar-based Sikh, were killed two days after The Resistance Force, a shadow outfit of the restricted Lashkar-e-Taiba, asserted liability regarding the passings of three individuals on Tuesday.
Makhan Lal Bindroo, a noticeable Kashmiri Pandit and proprietor of Srinagar’s most well known drug store, was taken shots dead at his shop on Tuesday evening. Minutes after the fact, a ‘chaat’ merchant, Virendra Paswan from Bihar, was gunned down somewhere else in the city. All the while, another regular citizen, Mohammad Shafi Lone, was killed at Naidkhai in Bandipora.
Three days before that, assailants shot dead Majid Ahmad Gojri, at Srinagar’s Karan Nagar territory. Later that Saturday night, they gunned down Mohammad Shafi Dar at Batmaloo.
