Srinagar, October 08, 2021 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, family members and relatives of slain school principal staged a silent sit-in protest outside civil secretariat in Srinagar, today, and demanded justice. According to Kashmir Media Service, eyewitnesses told media that the members of Sikh community, majority of whom were family members and relatives of slain school principal, Supinder Kour, walked on foot from Alochibagh to Civil Secretariat.

“The family members of Kour were carrying her body on a stretcher and when they reached the Civil Secretariat, they staged a silent-sit-in,” the eyewitnesses said. Supinder Kour was shot dead along with her colleague Deepak Chand at a government school in Safa Kadal area of Srinagar, yesterday.

Senior police officers reached the spot and persuaded the family members of Kour to take her body to Batamaloo cremation ground for last rites. However, the family members of Kour demanded “justice and stern punishment to the killers” before proceeding for cremation ground. Meanwhile, Hurriyat leader and the Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Tehreek-e-Fikr-o-Aiteqad, Maulana Sarjan Barkati in a statement in Srinagar termed the killing of the two teachers as a conspiracy against minorities in the territory.

He said that Modi’s fascist Indian government and its secret agencies were involved in killing of innocent Kashmiris and members of minority communities in the territory under a conspiracy to create a wedge between Muslims and other communities. He said called upon the people of the territory to beware of Indian designs to divide them on communal lines. He said, “The decades-old mutual trust, brotherhood and religious tolerance among Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims are the hallmark of Jammu and Kashmir which we call Kashmiriyat.”

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