J&K Government Bought, Destroyed Video Of Deputy SP Ayub Pandith’s Lynching

Mehbooba Mufti-led Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) government has bought and destroyed the video footage that showed an Islamist mob lynching deputy superintendent of J&K police, Mohammed Ayub Pandith, outside the Jamia Mosque in downtown Srinagar, Hindustan Times has reported.

The video, filmed on Islam’s holiest night, showed Pandith being stripped naked and violently pummelled. “His arms and legs were bent and broken just as someone breaks a sugarcane before eating it,” the daily quoted a top government official, who saw the video, as saying.

According to the official, the state machinery worked overtime to source and destroy the video, which was recorded by a civilian working as an informant for several agencies operating in Kashmir Valley.