Terrorists murder Jammu & Kashmir DGP (Prisons) Hemant Kumar Lohia. ‘warn Hindutva regime’

 8th October 2022. Source: economictimes timesnowhindi.  greaterkashmir

Jammu and Kashmir DG Prison Hemant Kumar Lohia (DG HK Lohia) has been murdered on Monday (3 October 2022) at his official residence. The incident is from Udaiwala on the outskirts of Jammu. The murder was solved within hours as his 23-year-old domestic help, the main suspect, Yasir Lohar's arrest followed a major all-night manhunt, police said in a statement,

Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (Prisons) Hemant Kumar Lohia  was a 1992 batch officer. His age was 57 years.

The DG (prisons) was found dead on Monday night at his friend's house on the outskirts of Jammu, with burn injuries on his body and his throat slit.

He was assassinated at a time when Union Home Minister Amit Shah is on a tour of the Union Territory. Terrorist organization People’s Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF) has claimed responsibility for the killing.

PAFF claimed responsibility for the murder on Tuesday morning. The statement said that his special squad killed DG Police Jail HK Lohia while carrying out an intelligence operation in Udaiwala, Jammu. This is the beginning of high-profile operations. This is a warning to the Hindutva regime and its allies that we can attack anyone, anywhere. This is a small gift to the Home Minister before his visit. We will continue such operations in future also.

The terrorist organization ‘The Resistance Front’ (TRF) has claimed responsibility of this brutal killing. What is this TRF? When was this new terrorist organization formed? What is its purpose after all? Who is its master? 

The story of TRF begins with the Pulwama attack on 14 February 2019. It is said that even before this attack, this terrorist organization had started spreading its feet inside the valley. Gradually this organization went on increasing its strength and it also got the support of the intelligence agency ISI along with some terrorist organizations backed by Pakistan. On August 5, 2019, as soon as Article 370 was removed from Jammu and Kashmir, this organization became active in the whole of Kashmir.

इस साल 28 सुरक्षा बल के जवान हुए शहीद

साउथ एशिया टेररिज्म पोर्टल के अनुसार , जम्मू और कश्मीर में साल 2022 में अगस्त 2022 तक 28 सुरक्षा बलों के जवान और अधिकारी शहीद हुए हैं। जनवरी से अगस्त के बीच सबसे ज्यादा अगस्त में 6 सुरक्षा बलों के जवान और अधिकारी शहीद हुए। वहीं साल 2021 में 36 जवान शहीद हुए थे। अगर साल 2014 से देखा जाय तो पिछले 8 साल में 533 सुरक्षा बलों के जवान और अधिकारी शहीद हुए हैं।

1633 आतंकवादी मारे गए

इस साल अब तक 160 आतंकी मारे गए हैं। वहीं पिछले 8 साल में 1633 आतंकवादी मारे गए हैं। इस दौरान सबसे ज्यादा आतंकवादी साल 2017 और 2018 में मारे गए हैं। साल 2017 में जहां 220 आतंकवादी मारे गए थे। वहीं 2018 में 271 आतंकवादी मारे गए।

साल	मारे गए आतंकवादी
2014	114
2015	115
2016	165
2017	220
2018	271
2019	163
2020	232
2021	193
2022	160 (अगस्त)

स्रोत: SATP 

 A preliminary investigation found that his body was oiled. He had swelling in his leg. It seems that Lohia was killed first. Then the throat was slit with a ketchup bottle. There are burn marks on the body. It seems that after the murder, an attempt was also made to burn the dead body.

Yasir Lohar's arrest from a field in Kanhachak, around 10 km from the place where the incident happened, followed a major all-night manhunt.

Police said initial investigations did not point towards a terror angle.

Terming the murder an unfortunate incident, the police chief said the force has gotten relevant clues from the scene which indicate that the accused had a history of aggressive behaviour.

He said the suspect had bolted the room from inside when the DGP (prisons) was rubbing balm on his foot.

The domestic help repeatedly attacked him with a sharp object and even threw a burning pillow towards him in an apparent bid to set ablaze the body of the victim.

The killer suffocated Lohia to death and also used a broken ketchup bottle to slit his throat and later tried to set the body afire, he said.

The guards present at the residence of the officer saw fire inside his room and broke open the door, the ADGP said.

The officials said raids were conducted by special teams at different places including the domestic help's home town in Halla-Dhandrath village in Ramban district where some persons including his fiancee were detained for questioning.

The ADGP said the CCTV footage collected from the incident site showed the accused running away after the commission of the crime.

"Lohar was working in this house for nearly six months…Initial investigation revealed that he was quite aggressive in his behaviour and was also under depression,” he said.

 The accused had left his house two years back and was working as a cook at this house for the last six months," he said.

Sharing some pages from the diary of the accused, a police official said Lohar, a school dropout, was apparently fed up with his life.

The domestic help wrote in his diary that he was 99 per cent sad but wearing a 100 per cent' fake smile'.

"I am 10 per cent happy, having zero per cent love in life and 90 per cent tension in life. I hate my life which only gives pain and waiting for death to restart my life," he wrote in the diary.

"A thorough probe is on to rule out any possibility (of terror angle). The weapon of offence has been seized besides some documentary evidence reflecting his (domestic help's) mental state," he said.