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| Dr Sandeep Mawa to ‘rehabilitate’ his slain salesman family | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 11: In a heartwarming gesture, prominent Kashmir Pandith businessman, Dr Sandeep Mawah who faces threat to life from terror groups has decided to “do his bit to rehabilitate” the family of his slain salesman Muhammad Ibrahim Khan who was recently killed by militants.
Sources close to Sandeep said that he has made up his mind to leave no stone unturned to get the bereaved family of Khan rehabilitated “as he considers them as his extended family.”
“Money cannot bring him back but I’ll do my bit for them (bereaved family). He(Khan), was like my elder brother and guide,” Sandeep is understood to have told his close aides.
It was reliably learnt that Sandeep would give around Rs ten lakh to the bereaved family.
The sources said Sandeep has prioritized the rehabilitation of his slain salesman’s family over his personal business.
Sandeep has told his friends that now his aim was not to earn livelihood but to do his bit to help the people of Kashmir victimized by terror.
It’s pertinent to mention that Sandeep faces a threat to his life.
On November 8, militants shot dead 45-year-old Khan in the Bohri Kadal area of the Old City.
Khan was working as a salesman for over a decade with Dr Sandeep.
Khan, according to the reports, was seated inside Sandeep’s car and was taking the vehicle to his residence when unknown gunmen appeared near the window and shot him from point blank range. Sandeep, who is under police protection, was not at the shop when his employee was fired upon.
It’s pertinent to mention that Kashmir Pandits have been facing a deadly serious situation in the valley for the last over a month since a spike in their “target killings.”
Last month, Makhan Lal Bindroo, a popular pharmacist in Srinagar was shot dead at this shop near Police Station Shergarhi.
After that a Kashmir Pandit teacher was among two non-Muslims shot dead inside school campus in Srinagar.
The killing of Dr Sandeep Mawa’s salesman came less than 24 hours after a policeman Tawseef Ahmad Wani was shot dead outside his home in SD Colony, Batamaloo on November 7 evening.
Pertinently, 20 militants, 12 soldiers and 13 civilians were killed in different militancy related incidents, including encounters and targeted killings in October 2020.
The killing of 13 civilians in October, most of them non-locals, is the highest death toll in the last two years and the fourth-highest since 2012.
The spate of targeted killings, mostly of non-locals, led to exodus of hundreds of migrant labourers and their families hailing from north India’s Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Bihar states. The killing also prompted the security agencies to beef up security apparatus across the valley.
Majority of Kashmir Pandith community was forced to leave the valley at the onset of militancy in 1990s. |
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