The incident was reportedly triggered by Malik's remarks against the BJP and PDP leader Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, which led to a fistfight between the enraged groups.
The police denied that Makhan Din, a 25-year youth, was tortured during questioning. Kathua District Magistrate and the police have ordered separate inquiries into his death.
Amid drug menace and growing unemployment, the region is becoming udta Kashmir, he said.
Wani’s reaction came a day after PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti applauded her party’s three MLAs who raised the demand for restoration of Article 370 in the recent session of the Assembly.
People's Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Mehbooba Mufti said on Thursday that her party would continue to observe the Union Territory (UT) Foundation Day as a black day till the special powers of the erstwhile state were not restored.
In a dramatic move, the PDP on Monday withdrew its support to an independent candidate and a former Congress minister Taj Mohiuddin minutes after the Apni Party also decided to back him in the Uri assembly constituency of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
Separatist leader Syed Salim Gilani on Sunday joined Mehbooba Mufti-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and is likely to contest the Assembly election from Srinagar's downtown Khanyar seat.
Mehbooba may keep herself away from contesting the upcoming elections in J&K.
This was the first meeting of the PAC after the defeat of Mehbooba on Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat and also the INDIA bloc disowning her party by refusing to assign her party even a single seat in the elections.
Engineer Rashid's lead of votes against Omar Abdullah has crossed one lakh as counting of votes was underway.
