Agar ye suluk karenge inka,agar inka(police) sabar jawab dega to phir shayad purana waqt na aaye road pe gypsy dekh… https://t.co/qBOCw1eQRd — ANI (@ANI_news) 1498198433000

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Deeply disturbed & condemn the brutal act at Nowhatta.Mob violence & public lynching is outside the parameters of our values & religion.... — Mirwaiz Umar Farooq (@MirwaizKashmir) 1498199013000

....We cannot allow state brutality to snatch our humanity & values — Mirwaiz Umar Farooq (@MirwaizKashmir) 1498199088000

NEW DELHI: Even as police arrested two people in connection with the lynching of an on-duty police officer in Srinagar on Friday, J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti had strong words for Kashmiris: "This is not how you respond to restraint on the part of the police."The chief minister then warned that incidents like this don't bode well for the security situation in Kashmir She also warned the people of the state against testing the patience of the security forces."If this is the result of their restraint it's going to be very difficult. For how long can this go on? I want to tell people, if this goes on, things may well go back to how they were, when people would run just upon seeing a (police) jeep on the road," Mehbooba said, according to ANI."What could be more shameful than this episode...He (Pandith) was there to protect the life of the people...Police are exercising maximum restraint, people must understand," Mehbooba said. "There's still time for people (to change their behaviour), I want to tell them that," she said.Mehbooba earlier laid a wreath at Pandith's casket at the district police lines.Early on Friday morning, deputy superintendent of police Mohammed Ayub Pandith was stoned to death by a mob in Srinagar that believed he had shot at a group of people who caught him taking photographs outside Jamia Masjid .Police sources told TOI Pandith was part of Kashmiri separatist Mirwaiz Umar Farooq 's security grid deployed outside the Jamia Masjid on the religious occasion of Shab-e-Qadr.Some 10 hours after the incident, J&K Director General of Police SP Vaid said three people accused of being complicit in the lynching have been identified, of whom two have been arrested."Two people have been arrested, third person identified. They will have to face the law," said Vaid.Vaid concurred with the chief minister's views on the incident."Our police is one of the best police forces in country, showing maximum restraint because they feel they're dealing with their own people," he said."People should understand the difference between good and bad. Those who are protecting them, someone who was on duty was lynched," Vaid added.In the meanwhile, details about what preceded the lynching are still fuzzy.Police sources said that Pandith was seen taking pictures of people coming out of Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta area around 3 am on Friday. They said that when people tried to catch Pandith and stop him from taking photos, he allegedly fired several shots from his pistol, injuring three people.Soon after, reportedly a group of young men began to beat the police officer. That group then quickly swelled into an irate mob that stripped the officer before killing him by hitting him with stones.Conflicting reports say that Pandith fired after people surrounded him and started assaulting him.The incident occurred even as devotees were immersed in the special Shab-e-Qadr prayers inside Jamia Masjid.In the meanwhile, separatist Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, whose security detail Pandith was reportedly on, took to Twitter to condemn the incident.He also got a word in about what he called "state brutality".