Anantnag: On July 25, Jammu and Kashmir police had claimed to have neutralised a local militant, identified as Imran Qayoom Dar during a gunfight at south Kashmir's Kulgam district. However, on Monday, Imran's family alleged that he was killed in a 'fake gunfight'. The family has also written to the District Magistrate in Anantnag 'appealing' for a probe into his killing. Dar's father Abdul Qayoom Dar, a resident of Batengoo village in Anantnag district, claims that he identified his son from a photograph of a body shown to them after the alleged gunfight had ended.
In a letter to Deputy Commissioner Anantnag Piyush Singla, Imran's father said that he received a call at 8 am on Sunday from the village’s sarpanch who told him that the police demanded that he present himself along with his son at the police post in Khanabal. "After some time, I received one more call from the police post-Khanabal itself and they too informed me of the same," Dar said in the letter, which had been marked to the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha and Senior Superintendent of Police Anantnag Imtiyaz Hussain.
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"I took the matter lightly as I couldn’t think in my wildest dreams that anything terrible would happen. About 4 pm I reached police post-Khanabal where they showed me the photograph of my son’s dead body." Dar mentioned in the letter, saying that he was "in a deep state of shock to see the photograph of his dead son."