25/07/2025
A young tribal man was shot dead by police today, July 25, triggering massive protests in Jammu. His family and a member of the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly are among those who have alleged that he was killed in cold blood.
This is the fifth death this year in Jammu and Kashmir of members of the tribal Gujjar community in which the aggrieved families have alleged foul-play while the police and civilian authorities have sought to reject the allegations.
The victim, identified as Mohammad Parvez, was a 21-year-old resident of Nikki Tawi area of Jammu. He suffered critical injuries during a shootout, police says, following which he was rushed by police to Government Medical College Jammu (GMC), “He was brought dead at the hospital,” a senior official at GMC said, requesting anonymity.
According to Parvez’s family, he left home between 3 and 4 pm on July 24 along with his brother-in-law to fetch medicines for the latter’s mother when they saw a group of four to five men in civil clothing near the Surre Chak area of Phallian Mandal. The area falls under the jurisdiction of the Satwari police station.
