Protest at Kallar after BSF vehicle hit & killed 21 years old  college student

GNS ONLINE RAJOURI 

SHYAM SOOD 

RAJOURI, JUNE 02:–Inhabitants of Kallar village and adjoining areas held a massive protest on the Jammu-Poonch highway at Kallar of Rajouri district after a rashly driven BSF vehicle hit a motorcycle and a pillion rider was killed on the spot.
The deceased Saqib Malik s/o Mohd Iqbal, a college student, & resident of village Kallar was reportedly on his way to Rajouri to appear in the ongoing examination.

Saqib was immediately rushed to Government Medical College Hospital Rajouri where the doctors declared him brought dead.

After completion of medico-legal formalities and post-mortem, the police handed over the body to the family for his last rites.

As the deceased’s family is poor, inhabitants of the area led by Sarpanch Parvaiz Khan (Dalogra) and Sarpanch Ashok Kumar Bama (Dhanwa) kept the body on the highway at Kallar and raised slogans against District Administration & BSF and demanded suitable financial assistance to the family and a government job for one member of the family.

Protestors blocked the highway for about 4 hours. Meanwhile, Assistant Commission Revenue (ACR) along with Deputy SP (Ops), Propkar Singh & SHO, Showkat Hussain reached the spot to pacify the protesters.
After listening to people’s demands raised by the prominent public representatives, ACR announced Rs 50000/- from the Red Cross Fund and Rs 1 lakh by the BSF as immediate financial assistance to the deceased’s family.
For the government job to one member of the family, ACR sought four days’ time to take a decision in this matter by the District Administration.