{"id":197676,"date":"2026-04-02T19:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=197676"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:46:30","slug":"assertions-being-raised-ganderbal-encounter-was-fake-mehbooba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/04\/02\/assertions-being-raised-ganderbal-encounter-was-fake-mehbooba.html","title":{"rendered":"Assertions being raised Ganderbal encounter was fake: Mehbooba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-170143\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/03\/mehbooba.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"616\" \/>Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti has said that assertions are being raised that the recent encounter in Ganderbal district, in which a local was gunned down, was fake.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the Army on Wednesday claimed that a local &#8220;militant&#8221; Rashid Ahmad Mughal from the Lar area of the district, was killed in an encounter in the Arahama area.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters in Srinagar Mehbooba said, \u201cThere was an encounter in Arhama in which a 29-year-old local youth, Rashid Mughal, was killed. There are allegations that it was a fake encounter. The Army first claimed he was a foreign militant, then they said he was a local linked to militancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The PDP chief then said that Rashid Ahmad Mughal was an orphan who ran a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO). \u201cEven his body was not handed over to the family\u2026 He was buried in Baramulla. This is what is happening with our youth,\u201d she lamented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti has said that assertions are being raised that the recent encounter in Ganderbal district, in which a local was gunned down, was fake. According to Kashmir Media Service, the Army on Wednesday claimed that a local &#8220;militant&#8221; Rashid Ahmad Mughal from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-occupied-jammu-and-kashmir"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/03\/mehbooba.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197676","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=197676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197680,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197676\/revisions\/197680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}