Cop's lynching: Pained beyond words, J&K being pushed decades back by PDP/BJP govt's failure: Rahul Gandhi

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday condemned the brutal lynching of a deputy superintendent of police (DySp) Mohammed Ayub Pandith saying, the incident has marked a new low.

"The brutal lynching of DySP Md Ayub Pandith marks a new low. Pained beyond words at the horrific incident," Rahul Gandhi said in a series of tweets.

The Congress leader also said that it was heartbreaking to see Jammu & Kashmir being pushed back several decades because of the complete failure of the PDP/BJP government.

Heartbreaking to see J&K being pushed back several decades because of the complete failure of the PDP/BJP Govt

— Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) June 23, 2017

The police officer identified as Mohammed Ayoub Pandit was on duty when the mob attacked him. He was stripped naked and stoned to death by an irate mob after he allegedly opened fire at a group of people, who caught him clicking pictures near a mosque

Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad stated that the act was against both Islam and humanity.

"The way the DSP was lynched to death was so shameful. Killing a person in the holy month of Ramzan is condemnable. If the mob was suspicious about the identity of that person, then they should have informed the police instead of taking law in their hand. Such thing is against both the Islam and the humanity," Azad told ANI.

National Conference (NC) leader Omar Abdullah also took to his Twitter handle saying the manner of the cop's death of is a travesty and the people involved in this incident will 'burn in hell for their sins'.

Meanwhile, two people have been arrested in connection with the lynching. "Two persons have been arrested so far and a third has been identified. All of them (involved in lynching of the officer) will face the law," DGP S P Vaid told reporters on sidelines of the wreath laying ceremony of slain officer