An off-duty police officer was killed in Pampore area of Jammu and Kashmir today. The bullet-ridden body of Farooq Ahmad Mir, a sub-inspector in the Jammu and Kashmir police, was found in the fields.

It is suspected that terrorists kidnapped the sub-inspector from his home at Samboora in Pampore and killed him in the nearby fields.

“Dead body of Farooq Ah Mir of Samboora posted in IRP 23 BN was found in paddy fields near his home. Preliminary investigation reveals that he had left his home for work in his paddy fields yesterday in the evening, where he was shot dead by terrorists using a pistol," Kashmir Zone Police tweeted.