On Friday, the Jammu and Kashmir administration announced the formation of a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the killing of a Kashmiri Pandit employee in the Budgam district.?
Rahul Bhat was shot at and critically injured by militants in his office at Chadoora in Budgam district on Thursday.?
?"A decision has been taken to constitute a special investigative team to probe all the aspects of the despicable terror attack. The SHO of the concerned police station has also been attached," Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha tweeted.?
He also announced a government job for Bhat's wife and said the administration would bear the educational expenses of his daughter.?
"J&K administration to provide a government job to Rahul Bhat's wife in Jammu and financial assistance to the family. The government will bear the educational expenses of the daughter," Sinha added.?
On Friday, police had to use tear smoke shells and resort to baton charge to disperse a group of protesting migrant employees at Sheikhpura in Budgam who were on their way to Srinagar International Airport to protest against the killing.?
Multiple reports claimed 350 government employees in the Kashmir valley, and all Kashmiri Pandits submitted their resignation letters to J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, stating they feel 'unsafe'. This comes a day after their colleague, Rahul Bhat, was murdered.?
Meanwhile, the district administration of Srinagar has dismissed reports about mass resignations by Kashmiri Pandit employees.?
"The social media reports of resignations by Migrant employees are denied as no such letter of resignation(s) have been received by the administration. Service-related issues are being addressed in a time-bound manner, in (a) week," it tweeted from its official handle.
(With PTI Inputs)
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