{"id":91351,"date":"2025-09-29T22:06:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=91351"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:36:42","slug":"missing-kupwara-man-found-dead-in-srinagar-one-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/missing-kupwara-man-found-dead-in-srinagar-one-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Kupwara Man Found Dead in Srinagar, One Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Srinagar, Sept 29:<\/strong>\u00a0The body of a man from north Kashmir\u2019s Kupwara district, who had been missing for over a week, was recovered in Srinagar on Monday, officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Police sources told the news agency Kashmir News Trust that a team from Police Station Kokernag had earlier reached Police Station Kothibagh along with a man identified as Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, a resident of Verinag in south Kashmir\u2019s Anantnag district.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, a team from the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) accompanied by police visited the Wanposh E-Rickshaw Exchange shop located on Exchange Link Road in Srinagar. There, they discovered the dead body of Mushtaq Ahmad Pathan, son of Muhamamd Akbar Pathan, a resident of Hyhama Glassdaji Manigah in Kupwara.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officials confirmed that Pathan had been reported missing since September 21, 2025. The recovery of his body has triggered a probe into the circumstances leading to his death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe body has been taken into custody for medico-legal formalities, and an investigation is underway to ascertain the cause of death,\u201d a police official said adding that one person has been arrested in this connection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe motive behind the murder is yet to be ascertained. It will be premature to say anything at this point of time,\u201d said a police official adding that investigation has been set into motion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Police have assured that all necessary forensic and investigative steps will be followed before arriving at any conclusion. [KNT]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Sept 29:&nbsp;The body of a man from north Kashmir&rsquo;s Kupwara district, who had been missing for over a week, was recovered in Srinagar on Monday, officials said. Police sources told the news agency Kashmir News Trust that a team from Police Station Kokernag had earlier reached Police Station Kothibagh along with a man identified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91352,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91351\/revisions\/91352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}