Author: NDTV Correspondent
Publication: NDTV.com
Date: August 14, 2008
URL: http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080061557
A man committed suicide over the Amarnath
land controversy. A 70-year-old doctor reportedly poisoned himself in front
of several members of the Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti.
The Samiti has refused to call off its agitation
even as Jammu remained shut for the 22nd day.
Protests have also continued through the region
often in defiance of curfew orders.
Intelligence agencies are now worried that
the suicide by Dr Balwant Khajuria, who left a suicide note on the clinic
he used to run will set the Jammu region ablaze again.
Today, security agencies were on tenterhooks.
Dr Khajuria's body was taken through his village with angry slogans being
raised all around.
This is the second such suicide-- the first
by Kuldip Kumar, a young man from Bishanah had turned the tide of the agitation
in Jammu drawing hundreds of ordinary people onto the streets to join in the
protests.