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Woman panch shot in Kashmir, in critical condition
Saturday January 12, 2013 09:51:49 PM,
IANS
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Srinagar: A day after
gunning down a sarpanch in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district,
separatist militants struck again Saturday, shooting and
critically injuring a woman panch in the same district, police
said.
"Militants shot at Zoona, wife of Muhammad Ramzan, resident of
Harda Shiva village near Sopore town this (Saturday) evening. The
injured woman has been shifted to hospital for treatment in a
critical condition," said a police officer.
The woman is a panch of Harda Shiva village council and is
affiliated with the Congress.
Militants had Friday shot and killed a sarpanch in his own house
in Bomai village near Sopore town.
After their election in 2011, thousands of panches and sarpanches
have been demanding security cover in the wake of killings of
three of them in Baramulla district.
While the state government maintains it is committed to protect
the elected village representatives, it says providing individual
security to all of them was not possible.
The state government has considered individual security in
specific cases based on threat perceptions, but mounted vigil by
the security forces in vulnerable areas where guerrillas are
believed to be still operating.
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