Bitan Adhikari was a 40-year-old engineer at TATA Consultancy Services (TCS) in the US and was one of the 26 tourists killed in the terror attack of April 22 in the Pahalgam of Jammu and Kashmir. His last rites were carried out on Wednesday (April 23). His wife, Sohini, broke off as he told the horror in which her world turned upside down on Tuesday afternoon.
“My son said mama … sound … Fire,” Sohini said, and told how scared her son Hridan got the noise of the gunfire. Bitan was shot for his wife and child, who survived.
“We didn’t understand. We heard some noise. My husband said it could be fireworks. He grabbed my hand and ran. I turned around and I saw one person being shot. Many fell down. We put down our heads,” Sohini described the events that were bit-bit-bit while she unfolded her eyes.
Sohini demanded that the perpetrators at the earliest were brought the judge.
Originally from West Bengalen, Bitan had returned to India last month on a summer vacation with his wife, Sohini (37), and their three-year-old son, Hridan.
The family was on holiday in the picturesque Baisaran -meadows, often called ‘mini Switzerland’, when armed militants approached and asked for their religious identities.
Moreover, Sohini stated that the terrorists asked the religion of the tourists before they shot them. ‘Hindus here? They said and then they shot people. I thought my husband would survive, “she said.
Sohini continued to say that there was a decline in security arrangements on the spot.
“There was no police or safety on the spot. They asked a person, uncle, are you Hindu or Muslim? Then they shot the man. They asked another person if he could recite the Kalma and shot him down when he couldn’t,” Sohini claimed. “They even shot the dead bodies to ensure that nobody survived,” she added.
The attack, one of the deadliest in the region in recent years, was claimed by the Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy of the Lashkar-E-Taiba (Let) supported by Pakistan.
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