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The government of Jammu and Kashmir took swift action after security forces killed an 18-year-old male Monday, arresting five men in connection with the shooting.
Altaf Ahmad Sood was killed when Central Industrial Security Forces fired on a group that was protesting electricity shortages outside the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation in the border town of Boniyar, Kashmir. State Chief Minister Omar Abdullah visited the family of the deceased youth on Tuesday, and then used Twitter to denounce the death, calling the circumstances “tragic, shocking and inexcusable.” The youth was shot twice in the chest, Mr. Abdullah said in a statement.
Local people were protesting power cuts in front of the company that runs the local hydroelectric power project. It is not clear whether the victim was part of the group of protesters.
An inspector and four constables of the C.I.S.F., a central government paramilitary unit, were arrested over the shooting. Mr. Abdullah’s quick response may be an attempt to avoid a repeat of the summer of 2010, when 120 protesting boys were killed by police over a span of several months. Protests over individual shootings would often lead to more violence and shootings. The summer of 2011 passed peacefully.
The government handled “much tougher situations last summer without a single casualty,” Mr. Abdullah told NDTV, an independent news channel.
Monday’s incident immediately provoked sharp reactions from political figures in the state. “People were demanding basic amenities of life, like power, and you give them bullets,” said Mahbooba Mufti, the main opposition leader.
The shooting “is an attack on the democratic rights of citizens to protest peacefully,” said Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, a communist party legislator in the state.
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