Tangdhar, May 04: A 42-year-old JKP slain police Sub-Inspecter Qazi Sageer Ahmad Pathan on late Sunday evening was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Tadd village of Karnah north Kashmir’s Kupwara district amid sobs ad tears.
According to eyewitness , a pall of gloom desended on Tadd village of Karnah when body of slain police officer reached his ancestral place where hundreds of mourners attended his funeral prayers before he was laid to rest. His premonition of death left tadd villagers awash with tears. His two minor siblings six-year-old Insha and Eight-year-old Towfeeq watched bewildered, what happned.
Inconsolable his wife Rasheeda Begum and aged parents wailed and were beating their chests, trying to come to terms with the devastating loss. Slain police officer was appointed as constable in 1999 in Armed wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police, later on he volunteered himself for working with Police Special Operational Group (SOG), an elite counter insurgency force from 2006.
As per official sources, the slain police officer was honored with various medals which include Sher-e-Kashmir Police Medal for gallantry in 2009, Police medal for gallantry by President of India in 2011, DGP Jammu and Kashmir Commendation Medal and GOC-in-C, Northern Command commendation Disc.
Notably slain police officer was among five forces personnel who got martyred in a night-long gun battle that broke out in Chanjmulla hamlet of Handwara town. Two militants including top Jaish commander Haider, a foriegner, were also killed in exchange of fire.
