A senior police officer has been lynched to death by protestors in the Nowhatta area of Srinagar, the capital of disputed, Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir.
He was allegedly clicking pictures of people while they were coming out of the mosque.
Media reports said that an officer, in civvies, had gone outto see what happened when some people moved out of the grand mosque raising slogans as Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was expected to arrive at the mosque.
An Indian police officer was stripped and beaten to death by a mob outside a large mosque in the region of Kashmir.
"When he came out after checking access control in the area, he was surrounded by some miscreants who started manhandling him and asking for his identification", SP Vaid, director general of police, told the Hindustan Times.
"Mob violence & public lynching is outside the parameters of our values & religion", he said. "This (lynching) is total breach of trust", she said. "May the people who lynched DySP Pandith burn in hell for their sins".
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Hundreds of stone-throwing residents clashed with police in the area after the killing and authorities have imposed restrictions on people's movements, fearing protests.
"There can't be a more shameful incident than this. Pained beyond words at the horrific incident".
Rahul Gandhi also said it is heartbreaking to seeJ&K being pushed back several decades because of the complete failure of the PDP-BJP govt. "Does Islam permit such a brutal killing?"
"An initial investigation revealed that there was an altercation and the officer fired to get away from the mob". His cousin and well-known lawyer Muhammad Abdullah Pandith said, "We are in a state of shock and disbelief, unable to understand what was his fault that he was killed".
"Another police officer sacrificed his life in the line of duty".
Eight policemen and an Army soldier, apart from six civilians and 27 militants, have been killed here during the month of June so far. Jammu and Kashmir Police is one of the finest police forces in the country.
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