Kashmiri Pandit businessman Makhan Lal Bindroo and his daughter Shraddha.
A day after prominent Kashmiri Pandit businessman Makhan Lal Bindroo was shot dead by suspected militants in Srinagar, his daughter Wednesday, while speaking to mediapersons, challenged the perpetrators to come out in public and have a face-to-face debate with her.
Asserting that she is “her father’s Kashmiri Pandit Hindu daughter,” Shraddha Bindroo said her father will be alive in spirit and they have just killed a body. Calling on the gunmen to “have the courage to come out and face” her, Bindroo said such people are “just capable of pelting stones and attacking from behind”.
Makhan Lal Bindroo, who ran two medical stores in Srinagar, including one started by his family in 1947, was among three persons killed Tuesday in a series of attacks by suspected militants in Jammu and Kashmir.
Meanwhile, RSS leader Ram Madhav and several netizens appreciated Shraddha Bindroo for her spirit at a time of grief.
Bindroo was shot outside his shop Bindroo Health Zone, near Iqbal Park in Srinagar. Barely a few minutes after his killing, militants gunned down a roadside vendor identified as Virendra Paswan, a resident of Bhagalpur in Bihar. Almost simultaneously, militants shot dead Mohammad Shafi Lone at Naidkhai in Bandipora district of north Kashmir.