Kashmir Interlocutor visits slain scribe Shujaat Bukhari's residence

June 18, 2018 18:47

The Centre's special representative for Jammu and Kashmir, Dineshwar Sharma today visited the residence of slain journalist Shujaat Bukhari today.

Sharma visited Bukhari's ancestral home at Kreeri in Baramulla district, 40 km from Srinagar, to offer condolences to the bereaved family on the fourth day of the slain journalist's "faateha" ceremony.

Bukhari, the editor of Rising Kashmir newspaper, was shot dead, along with his two personal security guards, outside his office on June 14 by three motorcycle-borne assailants.

The police have constituted a special investigation team under the supervision of the deputy inspector general, central Kashmir to probe the killing. -- PTI

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