SRINAGAR: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Friday demanded a time-bound probe into the death of an alleged drug peddler in cross-firing with police in Jammu city.

“Mohammad Parvez a tribal youth was killed by the police at Surat Chak, Police Station in Satwari yesterday. He’s now been labelled as a drug dealer but even that may be the case we still live in a democratic country where justice is served through rule of law as opposed to khap panchayats or kangaroo courts,” the former chief minister said in a post on X.

She demanded an impartial inquiry into the incident.