His arms, legs were bent: J-K govt bought, destroyed video of cops lynching

July 04, 2017 12:21

The lynching of Jammu and Kashmir deputy superintendent of police, Mohammed Ayub Pandith, was captured on a video which was so violent that the state government bought and destroyed it for fear of public repercussions, a top state official told the Hindustan Times.

The 57-year-old officer's body was found outside Srinagar's main mosque where thousands of people had gathered for night-long congregational prayers on Islam's holiest night of Shab-e-Qadr on June 23.

"He was stripped naked and violently pummelled. His arms and legs were bent and broken just as someone breaks a sugarcane before eating it,'' said the top official who saw the video of Pandith's lynching.

The official, who saw the video, said they had to work overtime to source and destroy the video for a "financial consideration'. The lynching, he revealed, had been recorded by a civilian who has been an informant of several agencies operating in the Valley. Read more

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