Jammu: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah and Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary were unhurt in an attack by a gunman on March 11. As per a PTI report, officials said the incident occurred outside a marriage hall in the outskirts of Jammu.
The accused, Kamal Singh Jamwal, a resident of Purani Mandi, was overpowered by security guards and was detained for questioning, officials said. Abdullah and Choudhary had come to greet party leader B S Chouhan on the marriage of his son, the officials added.
However, two police personnel – an inspector and a sub-inspector – overpowered him. Despite this, the accused managed to fire one shot before he was disarmed and taken into custody.
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah, who is also the son of Farooq Abdullah, condemned the attack and raised questions over the level of security.
Jamwal, the 63-year-old accused, told police he had been planning to kill Farooq Abdullah for nearly two decades, calling it his “personal agenda.”
“I wanted to kill Farooq Abdullah for the past 20 years. It was my personal agenda. The weapon is my own, issued to me,” Jamwal told the police, adding that he considered himself “lucky to survive”.
