Despite the fact that BJP leaders and workers are being provided heightened security cover and are accommodated in "safe houses", they are still being targeted.
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SRINAGAR: The personal security officer (PSO) of PDP functionary Haji Parvaiz Ahmad was shot dead by terrorists outside the neta’s residence at Natipora, Srinagar, early Monday. Parvaiz said this was the second attack on him since 2009, blaming the police for not providing adequate security cover an allegation J&K DGP Dilbag Singh denied, stating that Parvaiz regularly violated security advisories.
PSO Manzoor Ahmed, a selection-grade constable, was returning from a grocery shop after buying milk when terrorists opened fire at him, leaving him critically wounded. He was rushed to Bone and Joint hospital with stomach injuries where he succumbed during treatment, police said. Security forces subsequently launched a massive search in the area to trace the perpetrators.
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir police chief Dilbagh Singh Monday said that the killing of a Personal Security Officer (PSO) of a PDP leader at Natipora, Srinagar, is an “attempt to disrupt the ongoing election process and the prevailing peaceful environment across Kashmir”.
He said that police have “clues about the number of militants involved in the attack and area where they came from” and that “attackers will soon be brought to book.”
Talking to reporters on the sidelines of wreath laying ceremony of Manzoor Ahmed, the slain PSO at District Police Lines (DPL) Srinagar, the DGP said, “One must understand that J&K is going through an important exercise at present the exercise at the grassroots level and there is a huge participation of people, which is commendable”.