STATE TIMES NEWS
Srinagar: Police on Monday recovered a bullet-riddled body from an orchard in Shopian district, officials said.
The deceased has been identified as 30-year-old Manzoor Ahmad Nengroo, son of Ghulam Ahmad Nengroo, resident of Hanjin Bala Rajpora in nearby Pulwama district, a police spokesperson said.
His body was found from Narapora village, he said.
According to preliminary reports, the deceased, who was Waza by profession along with two more associates including an elderly man, were returning from their work in an Auto after conclusion of a function at Chraripora area of Budgam. Enroute one more person,a baker by profession, also boarded in the Auto. The terrorists waiting in a Tata Mobile at Aglar intercepted the Auto and forcibly abducted all the four persons. The elderly man was released after travelling a distance of about two kilometers, followed by release of other two near Kellar. However, deceased Manzoor Ahmad was taken along by the abductors and his bullet riddled body was recovered in the orchards of village Narpora Shopian this morning.
It was further revealed during the course of investigation that the killing is handiwork of terrorists due to group rivalry between them. It is pertinent to mention that one of the deceased’s brother namely Ashiq Nengroo is a terrorist of JeM outfit and presently in Pakistan. His second brother, Abbas Nengroo was an active terrorist who got killed in an encounter in 2014 in Pulwama while as his third brother namely terrorist Reyaz Negroo is lodged in prison for his involvement in Jammu terror attack case who used to ferry terrorists from Jammu to Kashmir valley through his owned trucks. Moreover, one of his truck carrying three terrorists was intercepted at Jajar Kotli Jammu and all them were killed in an encounter on spot.
