Islamabad (Anantnag), June 17: Police on Friday arrested two siblings on the charges of killing their own brother in south Kashmir’s Kellar area earlier this week.
 Talking to Greater Kashmir Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Aziz Akbar Khan said that police had picked up Farooq Ahmad Dar and Ashiq Hussain Dar two siblings of Manzoor Ahmed Dar, shot dead by gunmen at Vishroo Payeen Kellar in the compound of his house, for questioning after the duo had misled the police team. 
 “Initially we were investigating the case from militancy point of view. But after taking up the investigation it came into light that the deceased was killed by his own real brothers after hatching a criminal conspiracy,” said Khan.
 He said immediately after the incident police contacted both the accused persons on phone. “They misled us by saying that they were at Kargil and would reach Kellar soon but the fact was that they were very much present in the Valley,” he said. “On  June 16 Police team raided Pampore house of the main accused Farooq Dar who during interrogation disclosed that he along with his brother Ashiq Hussain presently residing at Pattan had killed Manzoor Ahmad Dar their younger brother and had himself fired three rounds by a pistol and then fled the spot.”
 He revealed that the weapon of offence a pistol has been recovered from the Pampore residence of Farooq. Furthermore, he said that Police also arrested the other accused brother Ashiq from his house at Pattan in Baramula district.
 The motive behind the murder, the DSP said, was a land dispute and some litigations going between the accused brothers and the deceased.
 Asked from which place had the accused procured the weapon, the DSP said, “We are in the initial stages of investigation and it is yet to be probed.”
 An FIR No. 62/ 11 US 302 RPC , 7 /27 IA Act has already been registered against the accused and both of them are in police custody.

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