Farooq survives assassination bid at wedding ceremony, gunman held | India Information

JAMMU/SRINAGAR : Nationwide Convention president Farooq Abdullah and J&Ok deputy chief minister Surinder Choudhary escaped unharmed Wednesday night after a person with a gun barged into a marriage venue in Jammu’s Higher Kailash and fired a gunshot earlier than he was overpowered.“We’re each secure however it’s now police’s accountability to say the way it occurred,” Choudhary informed reporters, terming the assault “a giant safety lapse”. Sources recognized the arrested assailant as Kamal Singh Jamwal, a resident of Jammu. He’s being questioned by the police to determine the motive behind the assault, they stated.“It was a operate the place a former chief minister, a present deputy CM and the CM’s adviser had been current and an individual might enter with a gun. You possibly can perceive how a lot safety there was,” Choudhary stated.CM Omar Abdullah stated his father “had a really shut shave”. In a submit on X, he wrote, “The main points are sketchy in the intervening time however what is understood is {that a} man with a loaded pistol was capable of get inside level clean vary and discharge a shot. It was solely the shut safety group that deflected the shot and ensured that the assassination try failed. There are extra questions than solutions in the intervening time, together with however not restricted to how somebody was capable of get this near a Z+ NSG protected former CM.”Omar’s adviser Nasir Aslam Wani, who was witness to how the episode unravelled, stated the arrested assailant clearly got here in with the intention of focusing on Farooq. “He tried to fireplace at Farooq sahib from a revolver. I don’t need to draw any conclusions but. It’s by God’s grace that he was saved. He’s nice and in good spirits,” Wani informed TOI.