{"id":306026,"date":"2018-11-24T04:11:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T04:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306026"},"modified":"2018-11-24T04:11:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T04:11:34","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-former-spo-kidnapped-killed-in-shopian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-former-spo-kidnapped-killed-in-shopian\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: Former SPO kidnapped, killed in Shopian"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_302030\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302030\" style=\"width: 477px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302030\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/JK-police-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/JK-police-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/JK-police-416x420.jpg 416w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/JK-police.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A former special police\u00a0officer (SPO) was killed by militants on Friday after he was kidnapped from Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to police, body of former SPO, Basharat Ahmad was recovered from Pulwama\u00a0district hours after he was kidnapped by the militants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Besides the former SPO, two other persons were also abducted by the militants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the two other kidnapped persons were released by the suspected militants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police said, \u201ctwo civilians besides Basharat were abducted forcibly by terrorists from Reban area of Shopian on early Friday. Two of them were set free. However, police retrieved the body of Basharat Ahmad from village Nikloora in Pulwama. His body was handed over to his family after completion of medico-legal formalities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Basharat and the two others, Reyaz Ahmad and Zahid Ahmad were all residents of Reban.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is the third killing of abducted persons by militants during the last fortnight. Two persons abducted from\u00a0Shopian\u00a0district were earlier killed by militants.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former special police\u00a0officer (SPO) was killed by militants on Friday after he was kidnapped from Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. According to police, body of former SPO, Basharat Ahmad was recovered from Pulwama\u00a0district hours after he was kidnapped by the militants. Besides the former SPO, two other persons were also abducted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[9860,1141,2270,2018,5311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306027,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306026\/revisions\/306027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}