Man Dies After CRPF Vehicle Hits Him in Srinagar, FIRs Registered

Man Dies After CRPF Vehicle Hits Him in Srinagar, FIRs Registered

One person lost his life after being hit by a security forces vehicle in Nowhatta, Srinagar on 1 June.

Residents of Nowhatta, Srinagar said that a security forces vehicle drove wildly into a crowd of protesters in Srinagar, slamming into half a dozen people, crushing one man beneath its wheels, according to AP.

Two people were injured in the incident and hospitalised. One died late 1 June night, a representative of the Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), where the two were hospitalised, told The Quint.

Officials have refuted the residents’ version of events, stating that the vehicle was surrounded by a crowd of angry young men, some of whom fell beneath the car when they tried to pull the soldiers out and lynch them.

“It was a situation created by the crowd. We showed extreme restraint,” said Sanjay Sharma, a spokesman for the paramilitary force involved reportedly told AP.

AP reported a third version from a police officer. The jeep had strayed into a group of protestors and accidentally struck some of them, he said, and when the driver saw this, panicked and tried to tried to get out of there quickly.