{"id":68507,"date":"2018-06-11T13:29:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T08:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=68507"},"modified":"2018-06-11T13:29:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T08:29:25","slug":"indian-bjp-lawmaker-suggests-stone-pelters-in-iok-should-be-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=68507","title":{"rendered":"Indian BJP lawmaker suggests stone pelters in IOK should be shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New Delhi, June 11 (TNS): Indian ruling party\u2019s lawmaker has suggested that &#8220;stone pelters in occupied Jammu and Kashmir should be shot dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I read about the withdrawal of cases against stone-pelters but I think those pelting stones should be shot dead,&#8221; BJP Rajya Sabha member DP Vats, told Indian news agency ANI on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Vats&#8217; remark goes against the centre&#8217;s major outreach efforts in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, in the backdrop of the truce move, when Indian home minister announced unilateral ceasefire during the holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>On June 7, Mr Singh, who was on a two-day visit to the state to review the security situation had said &#8220;children make mistakes&#8221; and cases against all of them who have been involved in &#8216;stone pelting&#8217; for the first time will be withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>Indian home minister Rajnath Singh in Srinagar said children are easily misguided, pardoned minor stone-pelters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; New Delhi, June 11 (TNS): Indian ruling party\u2019s lawmaker has suggested that &#8220;stone pelters in occupied Jammu and Kashmir should be shot dead.&#8221; &#8220;I read about the withdrawal of cases against stone-pelters but I think those pelting stones should be shot dead,&#8221; BJP Rajya Sabha member DP Vats, told Indian news agency ANI on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srinagar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68508,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68507\/revisions\/68508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}