Unidentified militants shot at and injured the son of a popular eatery owner in Sonwar area on Wednesday evening.
Militants fired upon Aakash Mehra, son of Ramesh Kumar Mehra at ‘Krishna Dhaba’, police officials said. Aakash was immediately shifted to SMHS hospital for treatment, where his condition is said to be critical, he added.
Immediately after the attack, police cordoned off the whole area to nab the attackers.
Reports said the eatery is barely a kilometre away from Army’s 15-Corps headquarters.
Earlier on January 1, a jewellery outlet owner was killed by militants in Sarai Bala area near city centre Lal Chowk.
The 70-year-old jeweller from Punjab settled in Srinagar for the past four decades was shot dead months after he got a domicile certificate and reportedly purchased a shop and a house in Srinagar.
The Resistance Front (TRF), believed to be a frontal organisation of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) outfit while claiming responsibility for the killing had said the new domicile law was “unacceptable” and everyone other than indigenous Kashmiris would be treated as "occupiers” if they purchase property in Jammu and Kashmir.
"More to come," TRF had said in a statement circulated through social media.