A 24-year-old youth was killed by suspected militants in south Kashmir’s Pulwama on Monday.
A police spokesman said militants barged inside the house of Gulzar Ahmad Bhat, son of Abdul Gani Bhat resident of Murran Pulwama on Sunday night and abducted him.
“The police recovered the bullet-riddled body of Bhat from the nearby fields of Murran later,” said the spokesman.
The body was first spotted by the locals in an orchard at Murran’s Bunpora area.
The police said it has registered a case and initiated an investigation. The initial investigation in the matter suggests two militants, Zahoor Thokar and Showkat Dar, of the Hizbul Mujahideen were involved in the killing.
Meanwhile, the body of the deceased was handed over to his family for the last rites. The deceased was running an eye clinic at Bijbehara.
