Babar had returned from court on Thursday afternoon when two unknown men knocked at the gate of his residence in the congested Hawal locality of downtown Srinagar, and sought to meet him. The men were asked to wait on a swing chair in the compound, said Rashid Maqbool, a neighbour.
“When he walked out of the house, the assassins shot him from barely two-metre distance. A bullet hit his skull and it proved lethal,” a senior police officer, who visited the scene of crime, told The Quint.
Babar, before his killing, had flagged concerns. Kashmir IG Vijay Kumar said he was asked by his brother-in-law, a middle rung officer in J&K Police, to “leave home for few days.”
His eldest brother, Zaffar Qadri, also a lawyer, who was inside the house, rushed out but the assassins…