Srinagar: Former Chief Minister and National Conference (NC) leader Omar Abdullah reacted to the Hizb commander Riyaz Naikoo’s purported audio clip saying that people are “threatened with being blinded one way or the other.”

 “If it isn’t pellets it’s acid. One way or the other people are threatened with being blinded,” Abdullah wrote on twitter.

Earlier, operational commander of the militant outfit, Hizbul Mujahideen Riyaz Naikoo in an audio statement has asked his colleagues ‘not to kill the people who contest local Panchayat polls but pour concentrate acid in their eyes’.

Naikoo’s audio clip had appeared on social networking websites in which he is heard threatening to pour acid into the eyes of those who participate in Panchayat elections. The local body polls are scheduled to be held in February.

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