{"id":169400,"date":"2025-02-19T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=169400"},"modified":"2025-02-19T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T09:20:10","slug":"candle-light-protest-in-jammu-to-press-for-probe-into-custodial-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/02\/19\/candle-light-protest-in-jammu-to-press-for-probe-into-custodial-death.html","title":{"rendered":"Candle-light protest in Jammu to press for probe into custodial death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-169401 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/image_2025-02-19_141933231-300x227.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/image_2025-02-19_141933231-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/image_2025-02-19_141933231.png 655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jammu: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, civil society members held a candlelight protest and sit-in in Bathindi, Jammu, to press for a fair investigation into the the custodial killing of 26-year-old Gujjar youth Makhan Din.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the demonstrators deplored that despite widespread outrage, no judicial inquiry has been ordered, raising concerns over justice and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>The protest was led by advocate Sheikh Shakeel, senior Congress leader Taranjit Singh Tony and other members of political parties and civil society. They warned that if authorities fail to act, they will intensify their protest to press for an impartial and transparent investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, civil society members held a candlelight protest and sit-in in Bathindi, Jammu, to press for a fair investigation into the the custodial killing of 26-year-old Gujjar youth Makhan Din. According to Kashmir Media Service, the demonstrators deplored that despite widespread outrage, no judicial inquiry has been ordered, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-169400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protests-activities","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/image_2025-02-19_141933231.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169403,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169400\/revisions\/169403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}