Suhail Khan
Srinagar, July 16 : Police have arrested two persons for their alleged involvement in the last month’s killing of a Shopkeeper in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
A police officer told that the youth Aquib Bashir and Auqib Shalla of Chesti Colony Baramulla was arrested recently and one pistol was recovered by a team of 46RR, SOG and CRPF on their disclosure from an orchard in their native village.
The duo was involved in the killing of the civilian Sameer Ahmad Ahanger (25) on June 30, he said.
The officer claimed that the duo confessed to the crime during interrogation at JIC where they were shifted soon after the arrest.
Sameer, a shopkeeper by profession was shot at on June 30 at old Town and he later he succumbed to his injuries on next day, July 1. (GNS)
