The suspect, identified as Yasir Ahmed, a resident of Jammu's Ramban area who worked as domestic help in Lohia's house, allegedly suffocated the officer before slitting his throat with a broken ketchup glass bottle, police said.
While a police officer told Sputnik that it was too early to establish a militancy-related link in the murder, a statement by the Jammu police said that “so far, no terror act is apparent as per the initial investigation, but a thorough probe is on to rule out any possibility.”
A senior police officer requesting anonymity said that it was unlikely that the accused had established militant links: “If there is a militant link to the killing, the death is one of the most high-profile assassinations of such a senior level officer to have taken place in Kashmir region.”