jammu government employee rahul bhat a kashmiri pandit who was shot dead by terrorists inside his office in central kashmirs budgam district was cremated on friday amid protests by members of the community in jammurahul was shot inside the tehsil office in chadoora town on thursday he was working as a clerk under the special employment package for migrants in 2011as the mortal remains of rahul reached his home in durga nagar area of jammu on friday morning his relatives wept inconsolablyrahuls wife meenakshi bhat was totally shattered while his sevenyearold daughter kritika was trying to cope up with the tragedy the motherdaughter duo was putting up with rahul bhat at sheikhpora migrant colony in budgammeanwhile a large number of community members gathered at rahuls house in jammu to attend the last ritesagitated over the targeted killing the community members including rahuls family accused the bjpled government at the centre of making young kashmiri hindus cannon fodder in the name of rehabilitation of the community as in valley the government has failed to stop the killingsas per the reports around 14 people belonging to jammu and kashmirs minority hindu community including kashmiri pandits have been killed by militants in various parts of kashmir between august 2019 and march 2022infuriated over rahuls killing in the government office a place to be considered as a safe zone the angry mourners said the incident has shattered their dream of resettling permanently in the valleyin the name of giving them jobs under rehabilitation of kp community a relative of rahul said they government have made the kashmiri pandit community an easy target for terroristsrahuls father bita bhat briefly said an inquiry should be ordered into the incident to identify all those involved in this coldblooded murderwith acrimony he said i was at a hospital accompanying my ailing brother when a family friend called from kashmir and informed about the incident but no government official contacted usi tried to contact the budgam deputy commissioner budgam and the concerned police officers but my calls remained unanswered he said adding though it was the responsibility of the deputy commissioner to at least inform the family as his employee was killed inside his office chamber in broaddaylightterming goverments failure to stop such target killing to taerrorise minorities in valley he said if a employee is shot inside his office nobody is safe in the valleyand if such thing happens it is a glaring example of governments failure he said adding those serving minority persons there in the valley are doing it at their own risk as the government has failed to provide security to themrahuls wife meenakshi said he used to say everyone behaves nicely with him and nobody can harm him yet nobody protected him i have lost all whats left for me she said wailing and gasping for breathearlier rahuls brother sunny bhat performed the last rites at bantalab cremation ground amid chants of long live rahul bhatjammu and kashmir bjp president ravinder raina former