J&K militants using cyanide to kill

HYDERABAD: The ISI-sponsored terrorist organisations in Jammu & Kashmir have begun using cyanide as a potent new weapon in their arsenal to kill people.
It is easy for the militants to carry the poisonous salt and kill people silently without using the gun in the valley, if the recent killing of a woman and a man in that state is any indication.
It may be recalled some militants had kidnapped Rani Begum from Dodi village of Poonch district on June 21 and killed her by injecting poison.On the same day, a man, Feroz Din, from Hari area in the same district, was done to death by militants who injected poison into him in his house.
But when the local police wanted to conduct post-mortem to identify the poison, the residents of the two villages protested saying they had no faith in the local administration.
It may be recalled that the then J&K officials had fudged samples of relatives of five youth, branded as terrorists and killed in the Patribal and Panchaltan enounter. This fudging was exposed by The Times of India last year which led to the subsequent suspension of some police officers in Jammu & Kashmir for their role in the fudging of samples.
Forced by the local population, the police in J&K sent the samples to the Andhra Pradesh Forensic Sciences Laboratory run by the state government here for testing and identifying the poisonous substance used by the terrorists to kill the woman and the man.
The scientists here analysed the samples and identified the poison as cyanide. The final report was recently dispatched to the Jammu & Kashmir police, a source at the laboratory told The Times of India on Tuesday.
The J&K authorities had failed to detect the poison, for there was a strong scent emerging from the room where Feroz Din''s body was lying. In fact, the local authorities suspected that the man died due to consumption of some perfume and even sent a perfume bottle found in the house for anlysis, the source said.
"However, the chemical analysis conducted by us proved that the substance used by the terrorists as cyanide," the source said.