Locks, Checkpoints Near Kashmiri Pandit Camps After Mass Migration Warning

About 4,000 Kashmiri Pandits have threatened to leave Kashmir if the administration did not relocate them to safe places within 24 hours

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has confined Kashmiri Pandits to their transit camps after the community's members threatened mass migration in the wake of targeted killings.

About 4,000 Kashmiri Pandits employed under a Prime Minister's special package yesterday threatened to leave the Valley if the administration did not relocate them to safe places within 24 hours.

This came after a Hindu school teacher from Jammu, Rajni Bala, was killed by terrorists outside her school in Kulgam district yesterday. The attack came as the latest flashpoint in the Kashmiri Pandits' protest for security since Rahul Bhat, a member of the Kashmiri Pandit community, was shot dead inside the magistrate's office in Budgam last month.

Today, migrant Pandit transit camps were sealed off at several places. At Indra Nagar neighbourhood in Srinagar, where several employees from the community live, police blocked the entry points and no Kashmiri Pandit was allowed to come out.