SRINAGAR: Eleven days after being shot by Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists, Akash Mehra, the 25-year-old scion of Srinagar’s landmark Krishna Vaishno Dhaba, succumbed to his injuries at SMHS Hospital on Sunday morning. Doctors said Akash earlier underwent surgery and was put on ventilator some days ago.
On February 17 evening, one in a group of three Lashkar ultras had shot Akash at the Dalgate eatery owned by his father Ramesh Kumar Mehra, leaving him with critical chest and abdominal injuries. Soon after, the little-known Muslim Janbaz Force which the South Asia Terrorism Portal lists as a Pakistani outfit owned responsibility for the strike in a statement, claiming it was in retaliation to “outsiders” being allowed to settle in J&K under the new domicile rules.
SRINAGAR: Terrorists of a little-known outfit shot at and critically injured the 22-year-old scion of Srinagar s landmark Krishna Vaishno Dhaba on Wednesday, timing the attack with a 24-member European Union delegation s two-day visit to the Valley. In a statement later, the Muslim Janbaz Force, which the South Asia Terrorism Portal lists as a Pakistani outfit, said the attack was in retaliation to outsiders being allowed to settle in J&K under the new domicile rules.
Victim Aakash Mehra was at the popular Dalgate eatery owned by his father Ramesh Kumar Mehra, whose roots are in Jammu s Janipora, when the terrorists singled him out and shot him in the chest around 7.15pm, J&K Police said. Medical superintendent Dr Nazir Choudhary of SMHS Hospital told TOI that Aakash underwent surgery and his condition remains critical.