The J&K police have now decided to do away with the “practice” of handing over bodies of non-local militants—killed in gunfights with forces in Kashmir—to locals for burial, citing massive participation of people in their funerals and the resultant pro-freedom protests. A senior police officer, who wished not to be named, said the huge participation of people in the funeral of slain Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Abu Qasim in 2015 “became a major concern” for security agencies in the Valley. “This trend of mass participation of people in funerals of militants was…
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