Operators stop supplies to Kashmir, Leh
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 2: All the operators and drivers of oil tankers went on indefinite strike and stopped fuel supplies to entire Kashmir valley and Ladakh after a tanker driver was murdered and his body buried by some assailants in Qazigund area of district Anantnag.
Reports said the tanker belonging to Surinder Singh of Nanak Nagar and attached with Sujan Transport Company of Jammu, loaded with petrol, left for Srinagar on June 23. This tanker bearing registration No. JK02AP/0049 and its driver Akshay Kumar of Sunderbani, went missing and the tanker owner and Transport company officials approached SSP Anantnag and IGP Kashmir the next day. Due to non-cooperation from Kashmir police, the vehicle and the missing driver could not be traced.
After two days the tanker was found abandoned some where in Lower Munda area of Qazigund but the driver could not be traced. Some tanker drivers and family members, taking initiative managed to trace the body today which had been buried after the murder of the driver. They informed police and the police party sent it for postmortem to Anantnag hospital. Later, it was handed over to family and tanker owner, Surinder Singh this afternoon.
Meanwhile, Oil Tanker Owners Union president, Annan Sharma said that entire supplies of petrol/ diesel etc from Jammu depots will be stopped from tomorrow onwards to Kashmir and Ladakh in protest. He said all the tanker driver, cleaners and operators in a meeting here today resolved to go on indefinite strike. They demanded security of the tankers and their drivers in Kashmir and immediate arrest of accused involved in the murder of young tanker driver Akshay Kumar of Sunderbani. He also condemned the behaviour of IGP Kashmir and SSP Anantnag and alleged that negligence and delay on the part of police complicated this case.
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