By Gafira Qadir
On 9 March, around 11:15 am, Habbibullah Shergojri was crossing the road in the main market of north Kashmir’s Bandipora when a parked CRPF vehicle, previously stationary, suddenly started moving, crushing him to death.
“He had already crossed most of the road when they drove over him,” said Mehraj-ud-din, 64-year-old Shergojri’s nephew. “How can a driver start driving without checking all the sides?”
As he lay lifeless on the roadside, a huge crowd of people and vehicles started gathering around him. Wearing a pheran, a long and loose traditional cloak, CCTV footage of the incident shows the details of how Shergojri was crossing the road—breathing one moment and lifeless the next.
The abruptness of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) vehicle’s movement left Shergojri no chance to escape. Its heavy tires ran over him, dragging him a few meters and killing him instantly. Minutes later, seeing the disturbance, the local police arrived and took the body with them for further investigation.
This story was originally published in maktoobmedia.com. Read the full story here.
