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Rahul Bhat's Killing: Kashmiri Pandits Take Out Protest March In Srinagar

The protesters held a sit-in demanding justice for Bhat and strict🎀 action against the authorities in Budgam as well as the assailants.

Kashm🏅iri Pandits took out a protest march on Saturday against the killing of Rahul Bhat and staged a sit-in in front of the famous clock tower in Lal Chowk ✃demanding justice for the slain government employee.  

Rahul Bhat (35), who had got the job of a clerk under the special employment pa🐬ckage for migrants in 20120-11, was gunned down by terrorists inside the Tehsil office in Chadoora town on May 12.

Kashmiri Pandits assembled near Bund in the Lal Mandi area of the city and held a puja for Bhat on the banks of the Jhelum river, following which they began to march ♒towards Lal Chowk.

After reaching Lal Chowk, the protesters held a sit-in deman🌼ding justice for Bhat and strict action against the authorities in Budgam as well as the assailants. 

Raising slogans against the admi🍌nistration, they also demanded that Kashmiri Pandits, who got jobs under the prime minister's package, be relocated.

Later, the protestors marched to the🌸 BJP's state office in the Jawahar Nagar area of the city, held a sit-in o🌳utside it and raised slogans against the party.

The protestors dispersed peacefully afterwards. 

Protests have been held at several places in Jammu and Kashmir over the killing of Bhat as well as the "failure&qu♈ot; of the administration in providing security to Kashmiri Pandit employees.

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