Srinagar: Police on Saturday arrested seven persons including six brothers in connection with an attack on Congress activist’s house that left one dead and another seriously injured at Seeloo Sopore on Friday late evening.
Official sources told GNS that seven persons have been arrested during intervening night of June 20/21 from Mundgi area of Sopore in connection with the attack.
Sources identified the arrested persons as Lateef Ahmad Khan son of Ghulam Mouhidin Khan and six brothers Mehraj-ud-Din Khan alias Raja Khan, Firdous Ahmad, Imtiyaz Ahmad, Abid Ahmad, Ishfaq Ahmad and Ayoub Ahmad sons of Sardar Khan, all residents of Takikhan Mundgi Sopore.
Around 9:00 pm on Friday Nazir Ahmad Naikoo son of Khazir Mohammad was killed and his cousin brother Shabir Ahmad Naikoo injured when the masked gunmen barged inside the house and fired indiscriminately.
Meanwhile, confirming the arrests, Deputy Inspector General Of Police North Kashmir, Ghulam Hassan Bhat told GNS that a Pakistani and as well as a local militant were involved in the attack by the family of Mehraj-ud-Din Khan of Mundgi Sopore.
DIG said that in February last year, a militant Mohammad Shafi of Zaloora was killed near the residence of Khazir Mohammad Naikoo and the attackers tried to pass-off the incident as the revenge which is actually not the case.
“There was a dispute between the two families and the incident related to it only”, DIG added.