Wasn’t An Informer, Why Was He Killed, Ask J&K Cop Pandith’s Kin

‘Humanity is dead,’ wrote a Twitter user.

Family members and relatives mourn the death of Mohammed Ayub Pandith at his residence in Srinagar on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

Deputy superintendent of police Mohammed Ayub Pandith’s funeral on Friday was attended by Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, police officers, locals and relatives. Pandith was lynched by a mob near Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta, Srinagar during the wee hours of Friday.

I brought him up like a son; do people go to a mosque to kill people like this? He was not an informer, then why was he killed?

Muhammad Ayub’s sister told <a href="http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/police-officer-beaten-to-death-by-mob-outside-srinagars-jamia-masjid-1715876">NDTV</a>

Mohd Ayud Pantih’s relatives cry near his coffin at his residence in Srinagar on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

Ayub Pandith died after he after he allegedly opened fire at a group of people, who caught him clicking pictures near the mosque.

Pandith is survived by his wife, a 28-year-old son, and a 22-year-old daughter. (Photo: PTI)

SP Vaid, Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police, and other senior police officers carried Ayub’s coffin during the wreath-laying ceremony at District Police Lines in Srinagar on Friday.

An officer being lynched by the very people he had gone to protect proves we have reached a stage where very little difference is left between humanity and barbarism.

SP Vaid told <a href="http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/police-officer-beaten-to-death-by-mob-outside-srinagars-jamia-masjid-1715876">NDTV</a>

‘Perpetrators Are Not Humans’

Twitter users condemned the “heinous” attack.