Inspector Arshad Khan, Station House Officer of Sadar Police station, Anantnag, succumbed to his fatal injuries shortly after he was airlifted in an air ambulance to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Sunday.
The brave officer of the State police had received grievous injuries in the terrorist attack on KP road on June 12.
He along with his security personnel had immediately rushed towards KP road area after learning about the terror strike on CRPF post near Oxford school.
Paying rich tributes to their colleague, official twitter handle of Anantnag district police posted a tweet, "Our brave heart inspector Arshad Khan who got injured as SHO Anantnag couldn’t make it. May the departed soul rest in peace."
Officers of Kashmir Zone Police also wrote," We pay our rich tributes to Inspector Arshad Khan who attained martyrdom today after sustaining injuries in a terror attack in Anantnag. Our thoughts & prayers are with his family & we stand by each other at this critical juncture".
